On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 17:02, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > My suggestion, which has worked in many cases before, just compose a > simple, nicely-worded email explaining what you would like to do with their > content, and what client you use, and why, and ask if they can create a new > PDA-sized area that suits your needs. Make sure to mention that you are a > user of their other services, or mention why you like their content or their > site layout or something.
Well, I'm a Guardian reader, so I'll leave that for the first poster to do :-) Its nice to know that this approach does work though. > > > The only UK paper I know of with nicely pluckable Avantgo URLs is The > > Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/avantgo/index.html > > There are actually quite a few in the UK: > > http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/avantgo/ > http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.htm > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/avantgo/default.htm This one is interesting as it contains news from 2000! > http://www.businessam.co.uk/Avantgo > http://avantgo.pocketdoctor.co.uk/ > http://avantgo.itn.co.uk/ > http://www.chopstix.co.uk/avantgo/cookie.html They appear to have taken this down :-( > http://www.ispreview.co.uk/avantgo.shtml > http://www.pdapro.co.uk/pda/ > http://www.fool.co.uk/partners/avantgo/index.htm > > Not all of them are "News", but those are the ones I had matching > "*co.uk" here in my collection. > Thanks for these. It really would be nice if there was a central repository for these URLs. For those that way inclined, I have found the Telegraph has a site at http://avantgo.telegraph.co.uk/ > > There is also BBC news at http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/pda/ > > I prefer http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.htm, because it has nice > pluckable images (funny that it still has 'text_only' in the URI, it isn't > text only). Nice tip - cheers Ben
