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#181303 - 26/09/2003 06:17 RSS
mschrag
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Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
So I've finally jumped on the RSS/aggregation bandwagon and I must say that I'm in love ... I had previously avoided it because I told myself that going through the rotation of bookmarks was part of my process at lunchtime and that if I aggregated, it would be too fast

Anyway, I was wrong. It tuns out that now I can be WAY more efficient because I only look at new material, so I am free to find a lot more sources of information ... I found a really cool program called NNTP/RSS (actually a java app, too, which is always nice) that basically runs as an NNTP (newsgroup) proxy for RSS feeds. So you can add all your RSS feeds into this thing through a web interface and access them through Mozilla Mail (or Outlook Express, etc). It's cool because I leave my email open all day anyway, so it's all in one place (same bolding-when-new-entries-appear, etc).

http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/ if you are interested ... It's obviously not perfect -- I've found a couple feeds that it had problems with. I've found I have the best success if when I add an RSS feed, I uncheck "validation" (so it doesn't verify it's correctly formatted) and then edit the feed and turn on "Parse At All Costs" (or something like that) -- this switches the parser so that if the main validating parser fails, it switches over to a desparate-last-attempt-parser -- seems to always work.

If only Strongbad and the Empeg BBS forums had RSS feeds now

ms

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#181304 - 26/09/2003 07:46 Re: RSS [Re: mschrag]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
I am a big fan of the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro. I agree that the Empeg BBS needs an RSS feed.
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#181305 - 26/09/2003 11:16 Re: RSS [Re: tonyc]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
I agree that the Empeg BBS needs an RSS feed.
Fine. To help make this a bit more possible, I'll post the needed details of the database later today, and if someone wants to start hacking at it, they can contact me to arrange details on testing and such.

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#181306 - 26/09/2003 11:18 Re: RSS [Re: drakino]
ricin
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Registered: 19/06/2000
Posts: 1495
Loc: US: CA
I thought there was some kind of upgrade/patch/hack that added RSS to UBBThreads? I can't seem to find it now, but I could've sworn I saw it somewhere before.
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#181307 - 26/09/2003 11:39 Re: RSS [Re: ricin]
trs24
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Registered: 20/03/2002
Posts: 729
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
After doing some searching I ran across IIP on threadsdev.com. It lists RSS as a future feature, but it is mentioned as an actual feature in another thread by the author. So, I dunno.

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#181308 - 26/09/2003 20:53 Re: RSS [Re: drakino]
mschrag
pooh-bah

Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
What are the language options for this hack?

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#181309 - 29/09/2003 12:22 Re: RSS [Re: drakino]
mschrag
pooh-bah

Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
you tease ...

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#181310 - 29/09/2003 13:47 Re: RSS [Re: mschrag]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
you tease ...
Sorry, didn't have phpMyAdmin on the new box yet, so I didn't get around to this yet. However, I think I am going to hold off, as the 6.0 database is aparently pretty different. I am working on a test setup of this board on the 6.x code now.

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#181311 - 01/12/2003 19:28 Re: RSS [Re: mschrag]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
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#181312 - 02/12/2003 02:26 Re: RSS [Re: tonyc]
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
I am a big fan of the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro.

Currently, I'm using RSS Bandit.
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