From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 02:02:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633A416A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:02:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DC243D48 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:02:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8E4C374; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:02:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15873-01; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:02:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC386BFB0; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:02:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A843D3B; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:02:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:02:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4346F08B.25482.6366E8B1@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20051008002201.GA6709@flame.pc> References: <4346D7DB.11418.63067AF6@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreshPorts personal newsfeeds X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:02:56 -0000 On 8 Oct 2005 at 3:22, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-10-07 20:17, Dan Langille wrote: > > I'm working on adding the ability to have personal news feeds on > > FreshPorts. In short, you'll be able to customize a news feed by > > selecting the ports you want included, nothing else. If you already > > use FreshPorts, you know what a watch list is [if you don't, you > > should be using it....]. Each watch list will have its own newsfeed. > > > > The URL will be something like this: > > > > http://www.freshports.org/rss/watch- > > list.php?token=07c5e534565839f10b536f3ed638be8412602130bb82f95fbb5a682b5655aa38 > > Very cool Dan :) I just finished some beta coding. If anyone wants to have a sneak peak at personalized news feeds for FreshPorts, go to http://beta.freshports.org/ and get signed in. Then look for the "Personal newsfeeds" link. One newsfeed for each watch list you set up. > > The token is random, more or less, and unique to your newsfeed. It's > > non-trivial to guess, but if you did guess one, big deal, you have a > > newsfeed. *yawn*. > > Which may be _extremely_ useful as a means of sharing 'interesting' > feeds with one's friends. Excellent! There's an idea.... selling off news feeds.... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/