The rss information was a little incomplete because rss can also contain
enclosures to podcasts as well as articles. Podcasts people subscribe to
with rss as part of their url are actually carried by the rss protocol
through enclosures.On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Chris Blouch wrote: The site
panix.com isn't charging extra for usenet access and has a pretty good
selection of feeds too.
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/
> >
> >
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/cali_chica
> > AIM: phoenixfire1807 live journal site:
> > http://miss-la-angel.livejournal.com my website:
> > http://phoenixquils.com
> > facebook: http://facebook.com/marie.howarth writer's twitter:
> > http://twitter.com/MJ_Phoenix
> >
> >
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