Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci <leonardo.canducci@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links
> to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the
> only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even google
> reader + gears can't fetch articles linked from a feed like that:
> http://osnews.com/story/22145/Linux_2_6_31_Released which has only a
> small part/abstract of the article. In such case you have to be online
> to read the full article even when all feeds are synced/refreshed.
> Am I missing something or there is no such software?
I finally used rss2email when I had this problem. I don't think it
handles situations where the author hid the article behind a link,
though.
Daniel
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