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To: Dead Corpse

I still don’t understand what the RSS is for...


549 posted on 03/07/2008 7:30:30 AM PST by rottndog (2008 Marches on...)
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To: rottndog
RSS is a transport format. Similar to the old stock tickers. It's a live feed. When content changes, or is updates, it is supposed to push that info out to your newsreader client.

When you open the FR page in a new tab, it shows all the recent posts. Instead of downloading an RSS add-on, I was trying to reconfigure Firefox to auto-update just that one tab. It won't. I then tried a couple of different RSS apps and didn't like the looks of them...

meh...

550 posted on 03/07/2008 7:41:39 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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