RSS and how it works

[Timothy Murphy]

Matt Florido wrote:

> Here's an example.  Notice Firefox will only show the title, whereas
> Thunderbird and aggregators will also show description.
> 
> <item>
> <title>Discovery Commander Surprised at Shedding (AP)</title>
> -
> <link>
>
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/space_shuttle
> </link>
> <guid isPermaLink="false">ap/20050729/space_shuttle</guid>
> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
> -
> <description>
> AP - Discovery Commander Eileen Collins said from orbit Friday that she
> was surprised to learn a large piece of foam broke from the shuttle's
> external tank despite years of work to prevent such shedding in the wake
> of the Columbia tragedy.
> </description>
> </item>

Thanks - that explains the advantage very clearly.
I'll try Thunderbird for a while,
but I suspect that RSS feeds within firefox will prove the best for me,
even if I don't get a full description (which I would quite like).
 

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