[ILUG] Slashdot New Story Notifier ;)

[Caolan McNamara]

On 03.05.00, 18:37:34, Dave Wilson <dave.wilson at heanet.ie> wrote regarding 
Re: [ILUG] Slashdot New Story Notifier ;):
> Also I can't place it now, but I'm sure I saw a message from Rob
> once asking people to keep autograbbers from grabbing more than
> once every half hour.

http://slashdot.org/code.shtml

Many of the headline grabbers are listed there, most sites such as 
www.advogato.org make headlines available in the spiffier rss format. 
(http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/quickstart.html)

slashdot uses rdf and homebrewn xml and a legacy ultramode.txt file, 
wxslash which is so old that I don't even use it myself does uses this 
file http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/wxslash.html Its subsection 
graphics are well behind the current slash ones at this stage and its 
written in (gulp! wx), and memleaks like a sieve. 

At that time slashdot was lagging the ultramode file slightly behind the 
actual story posting on the front page, I put that down to an attempt to 
make automated first posting nontrivial. 

C.