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Date:      Sat, 8 Oct 2005 03:22:01 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreshPorts personal newsfeeds
Message-ID:  <20051008002201.GA6709@flame.pc>
In-Reply-To: <4346D7DB.11418.63067AF6@localhost>
References:  <4346D7DB.11418.63067AF6@localhost>

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On 2005-10-07 20:17, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> 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 :)

> 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!




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