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Thanks for the script.  I will give it a try.  That reminds me that I use to
use a perl script, obtained from CPan, that converted slashdot to text and
mailed it to me.  I had it setup in Cron to do it once per day.

For some reason I start receiving my Slashdot Yahoo Alerts again.  There
system must have been down for a few weeks.

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, David Hummel <lemmuh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM, James Kramer <kramerjm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to print slashdot expanded headlines so that you can
> > take the print with you to read on the T?
>
> Try the attached script, which retrieves the RSS feed and converts it
> to super-minimal HTML containing only the bits you likely care about.
> You can then transform and print this HTML to your liking using any
> number of tools...
>






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