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Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?



i faced this annoyance too... maybe someone has to put his hands on it...
caching the pages feeds are referring too has to be quite an hard job, with all references in contemporary html pages, and framing... once i tried to wgetting the feed page but these problems stopped my trials

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 17:57, S. Fishpaste <SDA@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:43:20 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> 2009/9/11 S. Fishpaste <SDA@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid>:
>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Leafnode + (perferred newsreader) or slrnpull + slrn
> Isn't that NNTP stuff? I'm looking for an RSS feed reader.

Yeah I guess being tired is my excuse; for some reason I keyed in on "feed"
in the subject and completely missed your reference to GReader.


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