[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:
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> > 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 =
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> will look just as if you had received the messages individually.
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> I think some permutations of EMACS, and I think Pine, can do this. Others =
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> 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.
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> Most modern MUAs will allow you to automatically move everything from a lis=
> t =
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> (like this one) to a specified directory thus making the high volume less o=
> f =
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> a problem perhaps, especially if you thread them. You still have to DL the =
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> same amount of info, even with a digest, unless the number of mails is the =
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> problem and not the total amount of data.
>
> I'm not discouraging RSS feeds, they can certainly be useful.
>
> -- =
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> beww
> beww at beww.org
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