[mythtv-users] RSS feed of mythtv-users

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky mythtv at kosowsky.org
Thu Dec 11 14:18:42 UTC 2008


Brian Wood wrote at about 20:31:10 -0700 on Wednesday, December 10, 2008:
 > On Wednesday 10 December 2008 19:50:37 stan wrote:
 > 
 > > RSS feeds are handy.  There's too much volume for me to get individual
 > > e-mails so I subscribe to the digests.  But the digests are difficult to
 > > scroll through for each e-mail, and replying is very difficult.
 > 
 > Some MUAs can "burst" a digest, but not many can. If done properly your inb=
 > ox =
 > 
 > will look just as if you had received the messages individually.
 > 
 > I think some permutations of EMACS, and I think Pine, can do this. Others =
 > 
 > probably can do so as well, google around.
Emacs + vm allows all types of flexibility for "bursting" digests into
individual emails either in your Inbox or in a new temp folder. I am
using it right now to read this email in fact.
 > 
 > Most modern MUAs will allow you to automatically move everything from a lis=
 > t =
 > 
 > (like this one) to a specified directory thus making the high volume less o=
 > f =
 > 
 > a problem perhaps, especially if you thread them. You still have to DL the =
 > 
 > same amount of info, even with a digest, unless the number of mails is the =
 > 
 > problem and not the total amount of data.
 > 
 > I'm not discouraging RSS feeds, they can certainly be useful.
 > 
 > -- =
 > 
 > beww
 > beww at beww.org
 > 
 > 
 > 


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