From aacd1e14fc6ab872bc2c588d8c6077c88ce8a310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:25:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/net/newst-backend.el (newsticker--raw-url-list-defaults): Update. --- lisp/net/newst-backend.el | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/net/newst-backend.el b/lisp/net/newst-backend.el index d1ce0e2af73..0fb347fc4e9 100644 --- a/lisp/net/newst-backend.el +++ b/lisp/net/newst-backend.el @@ -64,9 +64,12 @@ considered to be running if the newsticker timer list is not empty." "Aggregator for RSS and Atom feeds." :group 'applications) +;; Hard-coding URLs like this is a recipe for propagating obsolete info. (defconst newsticker--raw-url-list-defaults - '(("CNET News.com" - "http://export.cnet.com/export/feeds/news/rss/1,11176,,00.xml") + '( + ;; 2017/12: no response. +;;; ("CNET News.com" +;;; "http://export.cnet.com/export/feeds/news/rss/1,11176,,00.xml") ("Debian Security Advisories" "http://www.debian.org/security/dsa.en.rdf") ("Debian Security Advisories - Long format" @@ -76,23 +79,24 @@ considered to be running if the newsticker timer list is not empty." nil 3600) ("LWN (Linux Weekly News)" - "http://lwn.net/headlines/rss") - ("NY Times: Technology" - "http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/technology.xml") - ("NY Times" - "http://partners.userland.com/nytRss/nytHomepage.xml") + "https://lwn.net/headlines/rss") + ;; Not updated since 2010. +;;; ("NY Times: Technology" +;;; "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/userland/Technology.xml") +;;; ("NY Times" +;;; "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/userland/HomePage.xml") ("Quote of the day" - "http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss" + "http://feeds.feedburner.com/quotationspage/qotd" "07:00" 86400) ("The Register" - "http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf") + "https://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.rss") ("slashdot" - "http://slashdot.org/index.rss" + "http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot" nil 3600) ;/. will ban you if under 3600 seconds! ("Wired News" - "http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf") + "https://www.wired.com/feed/rss") ("Heise News (german)" "http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf") ("Tagesschau (german)" -- 2.39.2