[Gllug] text based rss reader

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Jan 18 16:52:57 UTC 2006


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:38:41AM +0000, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> Its (almost) like being back using a nice NNTP news reader again....but 
> not quite - RSS only lets you find the 20 most recent articles for most 
> sites, where as NNTP would keep messages around much longer, and I can't 
> easily participate in threads from within my RSS reader, and so on...

Gnus remembers old RSS entries as well, until you read them, and is
just like a newsreader because, well, it is a newsreader.

(Still can't participate in threads though. And yes, I agree, blogs
are a vast step backwards and suck in numerous ways.)

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 unfortunately.' --- Velvet Wood
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