USENET News is a very old service where folks can read and reply to
messages in a thread using NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol). The
discussions are broken down into topic and sub topics with dots
inbetween such as comp.sys.mac.games or the like. Adding or removing
topics is done through a moderation process and every post to a
newsgroup server in one location is replicated to all the other ones.
The content is generally not moderated so in recent years the topic
areas have become rife with porn, spam and pirated software. Because of
this, and the large volume of data on the comp.binaries branch, some
service providers have decided to discontinue their usenet news servers
or charge an additional fee for access. A newsgroup reader application
allows your mac to 'subscribe' to one or more discussion branches so you
can post or reply to messages, if you have access to a newsfeed server.
An RSS feed reader is something else. A site can choose to publish a
summary of changed articles in a specialized XML format, usually RSS or
Atom. This file usually contains a time-ordered list of article titles
and summaries to which you can subscribe. Any time the site adds a new
article, a new entry is made in the 'feed' and your feed reader polls
the site to let you know when there are updates. In theory the site
could put the entire content of the article in the feed but usually the
intent is to snack and click through to anything interesting. The feeds
can also do pruning such as keeping only the latest 30 items in the feed
or offering multiple feeds covering different areas on their site.
Hope this helps.
CB
marie Howarth wrote:
I have no idea what the difference is.
On 23 Apr 2010, at 16:56, william lomas wrote:
that is not a newsgorup reader though?
On 23 Apr 2010, at 16:43, marie Howarth wrote:
Hi,
Some people have been asking for an accessible RSS reader on the mac. The mail
app obviously gives some functionality with rSS but the app I just found is
pretty much amazing. You can share links with your social networks, read the
articles where you like, and overall is pretty awesome. Very responsive with VO.
It is in beta but I have just emailed the creators and congratulated them on
the level of accessibility.
What you need
Your mac
Your safari
Your internet
and a google account.
OK, before anyone starts jumping down my throat. You only need to sign in with
a google account. You do not need to go to the web to subscribe or whatever.
You can but subscriptions or cancelling can all be done within the app.
Download the app from the website and once you've ran the dMG file, enter your
google account and off you go.
It's called Gruml and I like it a lot.
Here's the link. Any questions feel free to email me.
http://www.grumlapp.com/
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