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[Fulvio]

I can subscribe to RSS feeds in Firefox with incredible ease, but how do I unsubacribe?
I subscribe to a faulty feed which gives today's info, regardless of the day selected. Also, is there a why to limit the number of feeds? Some feeds clean themselves up, but other feeds do not. I have one feed, which is weekly, and I have a list which goes back to the first week of 2006.

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[richard mitnick]

Fulvio-

I use MyYahoo! for RSS, so that everything is web based. I originally had PLUCK, which downloaded stuff to my harddrive whether I wanted it or not. If I did not attend to it, it would just keep filling up megabytes of storage.

I am not sure how RSS works through a browser like FF, but I do not want anything forcing me to attend to what is basically news.

I have four different MyYahoo! identities so that I can organize my RSS: general news; technical news; my company; the Wall Street Journal.

I have not seen usage statistics in quite some time; but the last time I saw them, MyYahoo! had about 50% of the users of RSS feeds.

Loading feeds is a bit clumsy, too many steps. But, in the end it is worth it.

::RSM

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[Fulvio]

I have two kinds of RSS feeds. Those which work, and open in Live Bookmarks in FF2.0.01, and those which don't work, although I can get podcasts of them. I contacted the radio station which issue them, and deleted the Feed. It is an all or none operation. I can't remove specific days. I select Edit|Delete with the feed highlighted, and it is gone from my bookmarks. Any other way was equally unsuccessful.

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[richard mitnick]

Fulvio-

Yes, it is that all or none problem that made me leave Pluck on RSS.

I do not do any podcasts, they are, again, forced on you. But, I do get a number of things that are available as podcasts but also as downloads, from my local NPR station. I can go to the site and see what was done in the past few days, and then download an mp3 of just what I want. I have a lot of that.

If you want to see an example, go to wnyc.org, click on Leonard Lopate, or SoundCheck. Also, you can look at "Speaking of Faith" at http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/ also has both podcast and mp3 download. So, I get just what I want.

If I did podcast with lopate or SoundCheck, you know, I would get it ALL.

You can look at the programs that interest you and see if they have mp3 downloads.

I am very happy with MyYahoo! for RSS and with mp3 downloads for "radio"

::RSM

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[Fulvio]

I found out that it was a restricted RSS. In other words, it led me to a podcast, where I can drag and drop on my desktop the mp3 file, but could not get anything in MyYahoo or anywhere else. In general, I have been able to get such files because the link was sent to me. In this case, the sender, who is my son, and he has a program on Michigan Radio has not figured out how to do it. It is that simple. He will learn.
In the meantime, I am doing things my way, and that's quite simple.

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