[JDEV] Slashdot over Jabber

Julian Missig julian at jabber.org
Sun May 27 12:33:28 CDT 2001


It would probably be more useful if you created an agent which does this
via "headline" messages... since we don't currently have any headline
agents.

Julian

On 27 May 2001 11:53:20 +0100, Al Sutton wrote:
> I've updated my watcher system to track Slashdot headlines as well a
> freshmeat, if you send a message contain "watch slashdot for linux" to
> watcher at jabber.com you'll then get a jabber message back for each article on
> slashdot linux as it's topic. It monitors all subject, so you can replace
> linux with palm, tech, hardware, etc..... (the full list is at
> http://www.slashdot.org/topics.shtml).
> 
> I'm interested to hear if;
> 
> a) If you think this is useful.
> and/or
> b) If you think the articles can be presented better.
> 
> As a side note, it also stores your resource field when you ask to watch a
> topic, so if you ask to watch something from work you won't get the messages
> at home. This is another thing I'm open to suggestions about the usefulness
> of.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Al.
> 
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