On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:12:37 -0500 Desmond Rivet <[email protected]> wrote:
DR> In addition to reading news and email, I use Gnus to keep track of DR> various RSS feeds. DR> For some of these feeds, certain articles will, over time, show up DR> repeatedly in my summary list. I'm not sure why, but I assume it has DR> something to do with updates to the article itself. Or maybe it happens DR> when someone posts a new comment on the article. I don't know. ... DR> Is there any way to score a repeated (updated) article down, so that DR> they wouldn't show up in my group unless I asked? I have no idea where DR> to even start with this; a simple push in the right direction would be DR> appreciated. You want to ignore updates which only affect irrelevant fields. Here's how I do it: (setq nnrss-ignore-article-fields '(description slash:comments slash:hit_parade)) This works for me to eliminate duplicates completely; "description" changes very frequently on some sites for instance. nnrss finds unique articles by taking all their fields that are not ignored and hashing the content. To find out exactly what's happening, set gnus-verbose to 10 and refresh a nnrss group. You have to have a recent CVS Gnus to use this. I added it fairly recently. In *Messages* you'll see a full dump of the RSS segment that describes each article, and from that you can easily figure out what's causing duplicates. For example, here's one entry from the Dilbert Blog: nnrss: Making hash index of (item nil " " (title nil "From Blog to Reality: Three Interesting Things") " " (link nil "http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/from_blog_to_reality_three_things/";) " " (description nil "...cut because it's too much text...") " " (pubDate nil "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:00:01 PST") " " (guid ((isPermaLink . "false")) "http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/203/";) " ") So the fields here are guid, pubDate, title, link, and description. If you need more help, tell us what feeds specifically are causing the problem and I can take a look. Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
