Re: [OT] RSS/RDF newsfeeds

[csj@myrealbox.com]

At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:31:05 -0400,
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> csj@myrealbox.com wrote:
> 
> > At Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:41:11 +0100,
> > Matt Hodges wrote:
> > > 
> > > >>>>> csj writes:
> > > 
> > >  > Is anybody here aware of any native emacs app that can read
> > >  > RSS/RDF newsfeeds?
> > > 
> > > There is at least one:
> > > <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/newsticker>. It's pretty good, and
> > > development seems to be ongoing.
> > 
> > Just what I wanted (and no gnus ;-).  Would any developer be
> > interested in packaging this standalone or say in the
> > emacs-goodies-el package?
> 
> Come up with a usable `newsticker-url-list' with a few english
> entries and I'll add it to emacs-goodies-extra-el (as it
> depends on wget).
> 
> I think http://slashdot.org/index.rss might work, but bans you
> if you download it more than once every 30 minutes, so i might
> already be banned trying it.

From my .emacs:

;; CUSTOM VALUES
;; newsticker.el-1.0
(setq newsticker-url-list
   (quote (("slashdot.org" "http://slashdot.org/index.rss"; nil nil)
   ("freshmeat.net" "http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm.rdf"; nil nil)
   ("Internet Archive" "http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php"; nil nil)
;; ("The Register" "http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf"; nil nil)
;; ("CNN" "http://www.cnn.com/cnn.rss"; "" nil)
;; ("nanotechnews.com" "http://www.nanotechnews.com/nano/rdf"; "" nil)
   ("QotD" "http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss"; "07:00" 86400)
   ("lwn.net" "http://lwn.net/headlines/rss"; "" nil))))

I have doubts whether the items prefixed ";;" work.  The CNN feed
appears to be a mere placeholder.  The Register feed, while
pretty verbose in the *wget-newsticker- buffer doesn't return
anything useful in the *newsticker* buffer.

But why not just lift the entries from Evolution or KNewsTicker
(and probably Mozilla)?