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Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:27:52 GMT
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:53:31PM +0000, Jake McKee wrote:
> I think the easiest way to solve this problem, at least immediately,
> is to be able to create a feed per newsgroup or collection of
> newsgroups. For instance, you could subscribe to .trains, .trains.org,
> or simply an uber.trains feed.
Right - but that would end up with several thousand feeds, which almost
no one actually reads. Not sure what the solution is - perhaps RSS (or
Atom) support a "category" concept, and then allow on the client side to
filter by category? Then we can map newsgroups to categories, and allow
the users to filter as they want.
> As far as not being able to view the feed in MSIE, one issue is for
> user of Pluck (like me) from www.pluck.com, which is an IE feed
> reader plugin.
I believe the problem viewing in IE6 was that some characters weren't
being encoded properly - that should be fixed now. IE5 I believe just
won't show raw XML in the browser, unless there's a DTD found for it.
But unless you're a developer, there's usually no point in looking at
raw XML anyway.
,,,
> Running it through feedvalidator.org shows that the funky single quote
> is causing grief at the moment, as well as the funny long "-"
> character. I saved locally, fixed those two characters (both as part
> of this original posting: http://news.lugnet.com/off-
> topic/debate/?n=24503) and opened it locally in IE without any
> problems at all.
I've encoded all the bodies, author names and subjects of the posts now,
and got a "valid RSS" button from feedvalidator. In the process I found
out that many of the spamblocks used by LUGNET (both by the server and
by some of the members) end up being invalid email addresses, so I had
to actually filter some of them in the code.
> I think this is terrific, and as someone who tends to only keep up
> with news and blogs and more with RSS, I'm all over getting this
> functionality up and running!
Glad you like it! I think it's going to be useful too. I do need to
actually code a feed now for Peeron - new sets, new parts, etc.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) For now, you could put the newsgroup in the category. (...) I woulda been happy with just the name, but I guess a programmer aint gonna ignore a challenge ;) (...) Yippee!! Thanks Dan. (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I think the easiest way to solve this problem, at least immediately, is to be able to create a feed per newsgroup or collection of newsgroups. For instance, you could subscribe to .trains, .trains.org, or simply an uber.trains feed. As far as (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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