[ILUG] RSS errors

[Anthony]

> Firefox can display RSS feeds as lists of "live bookmarks". See
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks
> 
> To view RSS content as individual message (i.e. like a newsgroup or 
> email) you may want to use an RSS reader. If you're familiar with 
> Firefox you could use Thunderbird. See this Thunderbird RSS tutorial: 
> http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2004/12/thunderbird_10_.html

Hi Seán,

You might be better off viewing the RSS feed with a client specifically
designed as an RSS reader. As David points out above, you can use 
Firefox's live bookmarks feature as a basic RSS Reader. Thunderbird is 
more useful as it is more flexible and has more features for monitoring 
RSS feeds.

However, I found Thunderbird to be (currently) lacking in some features 
- primarily the ability to import / export OPML [1] which is useful if 
you want to try out other RSS readers / aggregators and you've already 
spent time "book-marking" the feeds that you're interested in.

So staying within the Mozilla family, I'm using the Sage [2] Firefox 
extension as my RSS reader. It's easy-to-use interface uses the sidebar 
as its primary interface and the program provides enough functionality 
for my current needs.

If you feel like experimenting, other Mozilla-based RSS readers are 
listed at 
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&category=News%20Reading
A more extensive list of other readers and aggregators is available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aggregators#For_Unix

Best wishes,
Anthony


[1] There are hacks for this but sometimes life is too short.
http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/01/03/thunderbird-opml

[2] http://sage.mozdev.org/
Documentation at http://sage.wikicities.com/wiki/Getting_Started