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Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:19:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
For now, you could put the newsgroup in the category.
> > 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.
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> 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 woulda been happy with just the name, but I guess a programmer aint gonna
ignore a challenge ;)
> > 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!
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> 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.
Yippee!! Thanks Dan.
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