[ale] RSS reading software

[David Corbin]

Freshmeat identifies several, but I want recomendations on HOW people use RSS, 
as well as WHAT software is good.  

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:16, Dow Hurst wrote:
> http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/misctools/fwrssreaders.html
>
> The link above is only Win based readers, but came from just Googling
> "RSS clients".  Maybe a little searching would develop some Linux
> solutions.
> Dow
>
> >>> dcorbin at machturtle.com 12/30/03 7:22 AM >>>
>
> I'm looking for recomendations for RSS reading software.  I'm not 100%
> sure
> what features I want.  In my mind, I can imaging the following
> fundamental
> approaches:
> 1) a web-based system that periodically polls a set of subscribed sites,
> and
> maintains a complete up-to-date list of "articles" that are available.
> 2) Another is a GUI-based client reader that  gives me the "here and
> now"
> choices for those subscribed sites.
> 3) a proxy that responds to the IMAP protocol
>
> Furthermore, I can imagine the additional following features being
> useful:
> * Distinguish between new stories and old
> * Keywords of interest (possibly by site)
> * Build knowledbase of articles that are of interest to me (Bayesian
> filtering)
> * Works like my mail reader :) (Kmail)
>
> I've never looked at RSS stuff, so maybe there's something I'm missing.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks

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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>