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   D to oldernow   
   Re: The joy of format-immutable, scrape-   
   24 Apr 24 23:55:41   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > Isn't is nice when you write a script to scrape and parse   
   > online text, and whoever owns the site containing it keeps   
   > the format the same for fairly long periods of time?   
      
   That is indeed a joy! My longest lived source of information online are   
   RSS feeds. I parse them with a script and generate emails which I send   
   to myself for consumption in my favourite email client alpine.   
      
   I am also anachronistic in the way that I like the old school TV-text   
   pages which still exist in sweden.   
      
   They do have an internet interface, so when I'm travelling I also have a   
   script that converts them to an email as well. ;)   
      
   When it comes to baseball, I thought that common sense and common truth   
   proclaimed that the white sox are the best, right? At least that's what   
   I learned when living in chicago and I thought it was a lesson taught to   
   all american. ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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