[JDEV] Slashdot over Jabber

[Al Sutton]

Do you mean a word from the headline?, or are you thinking of something more
complex?

Either should be easy for me to do as the libraries I allow me to focus on
the logic of handling the message.

Al.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Missig" <julian at jabber.org>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Slashdot over Jabber


> 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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