My only beef with topix.net <http://topix.net> is that sometimes i get a feed i really want to read and the site it directs me too requires signing up lol, now thats fine but if i had signed up to them all, I would have a book full of usernames and passwords (yes I already have many lol).
On 4/25/05, Kent Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi-ya All > > I have a couple of things, slightly off topic, so > please bear with me. > > I am curious about Topix.net <http://Topix.net>'s terms of service, I > will contact them directly if no one has any pointers > or no one from topix.net <http://topix.net> is listening. > > They say in their faq you may not "take the results > from the Service and reformat and display them". Now > this sounds pretty limiting, depending on the way you > read it. If you define everything topix.net <http://topix.net> produces > as the Service you could say that you are not allowed > to ever put any topix.net <http://topix.net> feed into any news reader, > which seems a little bit severe. How does one define > the Service? Every news reader out there reformats and > displays. Does anyone have any comments? > > And on another topix.net <http://topix.net> related issue, when I try a > typical url which I get from a topix.net <http://topix.net> feed it fails > in IE but not in firefox. Is this an IE error (ie IE > is blocking the redirect), or some sort of topix.net <http://topix.net> > reaggration prevention scheme? Do these links expire? > for example: > > http://topix.net/r/05j525XYQmo8VlBBUPUWa9BbbTVycOau9vgDk=2Bl1ukNwMkNnHED0CxHeAtDKmxTX0lgU0tY9rpTYBt2uczfx5D7RoFjFOrPHuTJ7nFFMfU7y5mExVgT1fVw8IW4vlwZR=2F > > thanks and take care > > kent > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) > > To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: > http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join > (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) > > To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit > http://www.syndic8.com/ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EpW3eD/3MnJAA/cosFAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
