RSS December 26, 2004, 03:25:59 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48340I see the option to view the Yahoo messages in RSS. What is the advantage or what does it do?Chris Hunter
Re: RSS Reply #1 – December 26, 2004, 09:44:50 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48349Quote from: Chris Hunter" I see the option to view the Yahoo messages in RSS. What is the advantage or what does it do?Chris HunterChris,Yahoo says, "What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for distributing web content (such as news headlines or new content in your group). You can use RSS to read or display recent group messages on another location of your choice."Any more questions, Chris? This is one thing I really hate about computing and the Internet. Like you, I want to know if or how this would enhance my life on this forum, but, after reading that "definition" I haven't a clue. Anyone? Anyone? Ferris?NH Paul
Re: RSS Reply #2 – December 26, 2004, 09:44:56 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48350Hi Chris, RSS was originally used to stream stock quotes, news, scores, etc to cell phones. It is now being used on blogging sites and can be picked up by some browsers and mail programs. I hadn't seen that it was available, I rarely go to the home page for the group, but when you mentioned it I went and looked. One of the things that Firefox does is let you bookmark RSS feeds so I tried it out. What I have is a "live" bookmark that automatically picks up new posts to the group and lists them
Re: RSS Reply #3 – December 26, 2004, 09:55:12 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48351QuoteHi Chris, One of the things that Firefox does is let you bookmark RSS feeds so I tried it out.Jonna, in San Miguel de AllendeJonna, I'm using Firefox and can't find any reference to RSS anywhere in the browser or help. Can you direct me to a starting point?NH Paul
Re: RSS Reply #4 – December 26, 2004, 10:30:02 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48353Hi Paul,Here's where I found out how to set it. http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_BasicsI'm not thrilled with it so I'm trying it in Thunderbird right now, that started out better but it only brought down a snippet of the posts so I'm now trying to set it to download the whole post. This is fun.
Re: RSS Reply #5 – December 26, 2004, 10:48:23 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48354Oops! I sent you the wrong URL, that one is for Thunderbird. I can't find the other one now of course. Here's how to set up the RSS feed: Go to 'Manage Bookmarks' then under the File menu click on 'New Live Bookmark' and put
Re: RSS Reply #6 – December 26, 2004, 10:52:12 pm Yahoo Message Number: 48355OK, here is the correct URL http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.htmlIt also has a description of what RSS is and what you can use it for.Jonna
Re: RSS Reply #7 – December 27, 2004, 07:19:05 am Yahoo Message Number: 48358Quote OK, here is the correct URL http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.htmlIt also has a description of what RSS is and what you can use it for.Jonna That's what I was looking for. Thanks, JonnaNH Paul
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