RSS and how it works

[taharka]

Matt Florido wrote:

>* Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> [07-29-2005 15:20]:
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>>Andrew Overholt wrote:
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>>>>>Also, does Fedora come with a "news aggregator" software or whatever it
>>>>>is to use RSS feeds?
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>>>>Yes: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
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>>>>Also there is liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) in
>>>>fedora-extras.
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>>>And hopefully pretty soon we'll have RSSOwl in FE:
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>>>http://rssowl.org
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>>I get RSS feeds in Firefox.
>>What advantages would other RSS aggregators have over this?
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>>I find it very convenient that I get RSS within my default browser;
>>any other source would have to have considerable advantages.
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>It's really more a matter of preference and convenience.  I also prefer
>obtaining RSS feeds from my browser.  However, one thing aggregators do
>that Firefox doesn't (Thunderbird does) is show the description of the
>topic.  Often times, I peruse through the description and I really don't
>need to read the full article.
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>Here's an example.  Notice Firefox will only show the title, whereas
>Thunderbird and aggregators will also show description.
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><item>
><title>Discovery Commander Surprised at Shedding (AP)</title>
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>	<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>
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>	<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>
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Have a look at the "Sage" extension for firefox. I believe it will give 
you functionality you're looking for & then some ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.