On 2005-07-08, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PS. An AnnoCPAN tip: Notice that if you are an author, you can subscribe >> to all comments on your modules: >> http://www.annocpan.org/~MARKSTOS/recent.rss > > Not knowing anything about RSS I put the URL into Firefox and it asked me > if I wanted to save the file. ? > > I believe the proper instructions are go to > http://www.annocpan.org/~YOURCPANID/ and click on the RSS link but I get > the same behavior. The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an > option to subscribe to the "recent notes" feed. > > A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and > live in our MTAs not our web browsers.
RSS integrates with mail readers as well, just apparently not yours. For an example, see this screenshot of Thunderbird: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/email/thunderbird/images/05_2thunderbird.jpg The person has subscribed to a feed from CNN, and is able to check it and read it as if it were a mailbox. Personally, I think it makes more sense to integrate RSS into a mail reader rather than web browser. As a mutt and slrn user, I use 'snownews' as a console feed reader which works great. It's like pine in the sense that it has a very helpful GUI and requires virtually no config file fussing to get started with. Mark
