Another Problem With PulpFiction
Ok, maybe I'm not using the program the way it's supposed to be used. Here's what I'm doing. I've subscribed to all the feeds I want. PulpFiction automatically checks for new posts every 30 minutes. They are downloaded to the Inbox on my machine. I read the posts and the ones I don't want to keep, I delete by hitting the delete key. For some reason though, I those same posts that I've read and deleted are sometimes re-downloaded a few hours or even a day later. It's very strange. It's not the end of the world. But it's a bit annoying.
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I don't actually have what it takes to run Pulp Fiction to find out (oh, the shame), but I would guess that's because it thinks a change in the entry has made it new: it probably saves a hash of every entry it sees, and if when it redownloads the feed the hash has changed (because they fixed a typo, or added a missing word, or fiddled around with some other elements in the feed and made every entry new again) it shows it to you again. The you get to guess what changed. That's one of the hardest problems for feed readers, telling insignificant edits from significant updates to an entry.
It's not a very general audience feature, but that's one thing that I've always been jealous of in NetNewsWire: it will show you diffs for changed items, so you can see from one red "e" and one green "e" that the only change was from "teh" to "the".
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June 8, 2004 11:20 PM
You're probably absolutely correct. I noticed it on MacOSXHints this morning on a bunch of posts from yesterday. It was probably the editor's notes that you see added in.
And then I've gotten them occasionally from other sites, and you're right. It's probably gramatical changes or whatnot.
Phil, you're answering my questions left and right. Thanks! And thanks for taking the time to post a comment. A friend and I are actually right now having a conversation asking "why do people never leave comments?"
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June 9, 2004 2:13 AM