If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry about it, but I’m having trouble getting my RSS reader to work with AskWoody. Anybody else out ther
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AskWoody PlusJuly 12, 2020 at 7:19 pm #2279691Well, I really don’t know what an RSS feed is, but I’ve tried to access the link provided in #2279607 via Edge, Chrome and Firefox and all I get is a page of gibberish – which I assume is not O.K. Windows is not giving me the option to access the link via Outlook or I would. What you don’t know you don’t miss, in my case, but I thought the info’ might be useful.
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ManagerJuly 13, 2020 at 11:31 am #2279952It is useful. You need to install an RSS feed reader. There are many. Unfortunately, the one I use, igHome, isn’t working with AskWoody.
See https://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html for a good overview.
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AskWoody PlusJuly 13, 2020 at 10:00 am #2279910Woody,
This morning all the articles from the Plus Newsletter showed up in the feed.
HTH 😎
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AskWoody_MVPJuly 12, 2020 at 8:33 pm #2279704Works in IE11
even the atom one
https://www.askwoody.com/feed/atom/OscarCP
MemberJuly 12, 2020 at 9:00 pm #2279712I read the Newsletter in my Mac, where I get it via email same as the Alerts. I can login into AskWoody and read whatever is posted here and comment on it, just as I am doing right now here. I’ve never used the RSS feed coming from here before, so I have a question: What important or interesting information am I missing?
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MemberJuly 13, 2020 at 10:23 am #2279919What difference does it make whether one receives the rss feed or not? Thanks to anyone what takes the time to explain this. I am no being ironic. Or sarcastic.I just want to understand what this is about.
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AskWoody_MVPJuly 13, 2020 at 11:09 am #2279936Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Allows a news/content aggregator program or site to pull recent headlines from multiple websites to present to you a single page of what’s changed/new. Each headline is presented as a link to that site and article.
During my morning coffee — can get an overview in one place on what’s going on across multiple interests — without clicking into each site.
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ManagerJuly 13, 2020 at 11:29 am #2279950Here’s a good overview:
https://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html
I use igHome, and it isn’t working. Still.
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MemberJuly 13, 2020 at 12:04 pm #2279987Thanks! Great article. I find the notion of RSS aggregators particularly interesting I might try one of them sometime. I suppose that one could put AskWoody’s RSS in the aggregators list? With my thanks also to NetDef for his concise explanation.
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GuestJuly 13, 2020 at 12:03 pm #2279982I use Thunderbird Mail as a news reader. With new editions of Firefox, it asks me if I want to open an RSS summary in Thunderbird Mail, but when I click on it, nothing happens. I can also save the file, but when I do that, I can’t use the file.
I can click on the RSS symbol in Opera, and get an XML file, which when I save the URL, I can paste it into the feed input in the news manager of Thunderbolt and add the feed. This is the way it used to work in Firefox. There are no error messages.
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GuestJuly 15, 2020 at 9:11 pm #2280921I finally determined how to use the Thunderbird news reader with Firefox. Right-click on the RSS Symbol in AskWoody and other sites, choose “copy link location” from the context menu, then paste the result into the URL input box in the manage subscription section of the feed reader in Thunderbird.
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