[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Come up with a usable `newsticker-url-list' with a few english > > entries and I'll add it to emacs-goodies-extra-el (as it > > depends on wget). > > > > I think http://slashdot.org/index.rss might work, but bans you > > if you download it more than once every 30 minutes, so i might > > already be banned trying it. > > From my .emacs: > > ;; CUSTOM VALUES > ;; newsticker.el-1.0 > (setq newsticker-url-list > (quote (("slashdot.org" "http://slashdot.org/index.rss"; nil nil) > ("freshmeat.net" "http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm.rdf"; nil nil) > ("Internet Archive" "http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php"; nil > nil) > ;; ("The Register" "http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf"; nil nil) > ;; ("CNN" "http://www.cnn.com/cnn.rss"; "" nil) > ;; ("nanotechnews.com" "http://www.nanotechnews.com/nano/rdf"; "" nil) > ("QotD" "http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss"; "07:00" 86400) > ("lwn.net" "http://lwn.net/headlines/rss"; "" nil)))) > > I have doubts whether the items prefixed ";;" work. The CNN feed > appears to be a mere placeholder. The Register feed, while > pretty verbose in the *wget-newsticker- buffer doesn't return > anything useful in the *newsticker* buffer.
Thanks. I also found out about http://www.debian.org/security/dsa.en.rdf > But why not just lift the entries from Evolution or KNewsTicker > (and probably Mozilla)? Good idea. Since I don't use them I didn't know about them. I could install KNewsTicker to see what it comes with. Peter
