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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Sean Maley wrote:

> I configured Firefox with an RSS tool, InfoRSS 0.9.0,
> that scrolls any changes to my wiki or new headlines
> with various news sources in a portion of the
> information bar at the bottom of the browswer window. 
> In my apache logs, I noticed excessive traffic
> constantly checking for changes, so I reduced my
> refresh settings for InfoRSS.  My only regret is that
> Microsoft continues to play unfair with non-Microsoft
> development for the Windows platform (Firefox leaks
> badly and consumes a huge memory footprint in the
> first place, as do many third party efforts).

And Firefox eliminated the option in the pulldown file menu ---> send page
(via email). This is too valuable a tool to do without.
I run plain Mozilla browser/email/news client.

Linux with Pine does the best job of all. Eventually I will make a complete 
transition to that platform.