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Re: Request: Ticker-2-Mail



* Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> ideally i'd like to convince the freshmeat guys that it would be cool to
> be able to subscribe to a daily machine-parsable (XML perhaps, or just
> plain old key=val with \n\n to separate records) update which could then
> be fed into your own 'localmeat' :-) database.

Uhmm, do you mean something different than the current newsletter?

| Subject: [fm/news] newsletter for Jun 26th 1999, 23:59
| To: freshmeat-news@freshmeat.net
| Mailing-List: contact freshmeat-news-help@freshmeat.net; run by ezmlm

Subscription info is on the website.

One example article is (the | are added by me, of course):

| 	    --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- -
| 
|   subject: cole 1.0.1
|  added by: arturo on Jun 25th 1999, 19:24
|   license: GPL
|  category: Development/Libraries
| 
|  homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/915174246/
|  download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/915174246/
| 
| description:
| Cole is a free C OLE library. It is released under GPL to help more
| software be released as free software. Cole can handle Microsoft 
| OLE's Structured Storage and Compound Files. Such formats are 
| used in the files generated by the Microsoft suite for offices. Cole 
| doesn't know about internal structure of a stream, it only reads
| the raw data.
| 
| changes:
| Fixed a little bug that may prevent compilation under Solaris.
| 
| urgency:
| low
| 
| |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/06/25/930353050.html

Cheers,
  Colin

-- 
Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>


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