Re: nnrss and some (partially redundant) RSS feeds.

[michael.cadilhac@lrde.org (Michaël Cadilhac)]

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Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org> writes:

> Reiner Steib schrob:
>
>> On Tue, May 23 2006, Michaël Cadilhac wrote:
>>
>>> +2006-03-27  Michael Cadilhac  <micha@mahaena.lrde> (tiny change)
>>> +
>>> +	* nnrss.el (nnrss-check-group): Use the md5sum of the whole RSS
>>> +	item as its hash index. Store this hash in `nnrss-group-data'.
>>> +	(nnrss-read-group-data): Update accordingly.
>>
>> Installed, thanks.
>
> The approach of hashing whole items doesn't work well with some of the
> feeds I'm reading. E.g., <http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot>
> has a readily mutating content:
>
> ! <slash:comments>105</slash:comments>
> ! <slash:comments>106</slash:comments>

Oh, I wasn't aware of such a thing. However, Gnus will not update its
messages, isn't it?

> Michaël's alternative solution of just adding the date to the hash
> would work for all the feeds I'm reading.

As it will for mines, AFAICT.

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