Re: nnrss.el, slight fix needed to make it work

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@polydistortion.net> writes:

> I just noticed this hanging about, and gave it a whirl, to find that
> it barfed in url-is-cached, because url-cache-create-filename returned
> nil..
> 
> I fixed it by changing nnrss-no-cache to return something bogus but
> still valid, like "/tmp/x" (instead of ""), but I'm not sure what the
> proper fix ought to be (Shenghuo ?)

I guess I did something wrong to disable the cache. Now, I temporarily
commented out that part of code. Hope it works.

> Just showing the URL all by itself in the article like that isn't
> incredibly useful, though.  Maybe the pseudo-message could be some
> kind of (pseudo?-)MIME type, so users could (via means that already
> exist, IIRC ?) choose to either automatically show the article inline.
> Or not.

I've thought about using message/external to show the content, but
most sites have a lots for tables which are not perfectly shown in
Emacs/W3.

> (Oh.  Hmm.  The Newsforge one seems to have some extra text in the
> article, that's not in http://www.newsforge.com/newsforge.rdf - where
> does it come from ?)

It comes from description tags in the RSS.

ShengHuo