Re: PATCH: Make nnrss include RSS dc:subject

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> The advantage of nnshimbun is to remove advertisement.  However, the
> module to deal with it with each news site is needed (e.g.,
> sb-bbc.el for BBC), and we need to make major changes in those
> modules periodically.

Would it be possible to separate out this into something declarative
that could be downloaded at will?

The main problem with all these web-centred things is the need to
update the source code whenever the HTML changes, and I don't see any
general way to fix that.  To parse Slashdot, for instance, you
probably have to do that programmatically. 

But for stuff like ad removal, couldn't a language be defined for
that?  For instance a set of regexps (or something) that could be
applied to the article bodies before displaying (on a per-source
basis).  The user could update these rules with, say,
`M-x gnus-update-washing-rules' that would download the rules from
some central repository.

The important thing being, of course, that there would be no actual
code being downloaded, because that would be a security problem.

Heh.  Imagine rules that would remove Yahoo ads from Yahoogroups
mailing lists, and Sourceforge ads from those lists, and...

Gnus ad blocker.  :-)

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen