Comments on: recycled knowledge http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/09/recycled-knowledge/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: David Carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/09/recycled-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-3748 David Carlton Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:40:57 +0000 /?p=149#comment-3748 When I start Gnus, all the nnrss entries have a * for their article number, and nothing happens until I enter the group. And when I subsequently check for more mail, it checks for news and mail, but not rss. I'm not doing anything special to control this; it works for my usage style (since my home computer is a laptop that gets turned off between uses, so checking all of my RSS feeds once per time that I log in is acceptable). There are a few rare situations where it checks all the feeds; I don't remember what triggers that, if I ever knew it. There are also some rare situations where it forgets the links for all the feeds; mercifully, that hasn't happened in several months. All in all, it's acceptable, but there's a lot of room for improvement. When I start Gnus, all the nnrss entries have a * for their article number, and nothing happens until I enter the group. And when I subsequently check for more mail, it checks for news and mail, but not rss. I’m not doing anything special to control this; it works for my usage style (since my home computer is a laptop that gets turned off between uses, so checking all of my RSS feeds once per time that I log in is acceptable).

There are a few rare situations where it checks all the feeds; I don’t remember what triggers that, if I ever knew it. There are also some rare situations where it forgets the links for all the feeds; mercifully, that hasn’t happened in several months.

All in all, it’s acceptable, but there’s a lot of room for improvement.

]]> By: Chris http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/09/recycled-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-3747 Chris Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:58:49 +0000 /?p=149#comment-3747 How are you using nnrss, out of interest? I tried it out a while ago, but I use the same xemacs process for irc/mail/news/etc, and using nnrss blocked everything while my ~40 RSS feeds were being checked. Would be really interested in you've found a way to have the polling happen in a separate process/thread. :) - C. How are you using nnrss, out of interest? I tried it out a while ago, but I use the same xemacs process for irc/mail/news/etc, and using nnrss blocked everything while my ~40 RSS feeds were being checked.

Would be really interested in you’ve found a way to have the polling happen in a separate process/thread. :)

- C.

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