Re: Re: Free news feeds

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Ben Ramsey wrote: > Tim Winters wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. They actually don't have free feeds anymore. > > They actually say in the FAQ that they don't do that anymore. > > Bah! They do have free feeds, still. I can't remember how I found this > link, but I went through an old backup of a bookmarks file to get it for > you, and it still works. The RSS feeds unbelievably still work, too. > > If I got to this page from their homepage without a login, then I don't > imagine they care too much about people using them. > > There is one thing I would suggest, though: to keep traffic down to > their feeds, set up an automated script (through cron or something) to > download the feed(s) once a day or once every other hour. Then, on the > page you want to display the feed(s), just point to your locally > downloaded copy. This way you don't tax Moreover's servers and they > don't get too mad about people using the feeds. > > The link: > http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_rss.html > > -- > Regards, > Ben Ramsey > http://benramsey.com Attached is a text file containing a list of rss and xml news feeds we use in our portal. You have to write the code to convert the xml to plain text. -- Ron Clark sysadmin/webmaster Armstrong Atlantic State University