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| What is RSS?
RSS is a bit baffling at first - but hopefully once you've read this, you should quickly see what it's all about!
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired,
news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs.
But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via
RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. And, of
course, our Forums! Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for
changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
What does RSS mean?
Depending on who you ask, RSS may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary
or a variation on one of those. A website with an RSS feed is said to be “syndicated.” There are various other syndication
formats besides RSS (such as Atom), but RSS is the most widely used and supported.
So RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites including our Forums - so that a short summary of the content is
publicly available to anyone with a reader - and an RSS feed can even by included into someone else's web webpage very easily.
You've probably discovered that if you select the RSS icon  that's on our pages in your browser, you'll see the RSS file in
its raw XML format (which also has an icon  although it links to the same pages the RSS one) - BUT it won't be very readable.
Where can I find RSS Readers?
You need a reader to display an RSS feed properly and make sense of it. Readers come in various formats - some display as a separate page with each news item
formatted in a cell, others show just the headlines with a link. Probably the most useful for existing Forum members is a news tickertape format where the
message subjects scroll slowly along on your terminal and you select a subject to read it in normal Forum format. Here are a few ideas - Google the web if none of these suit you.
Tickertape Readers
There don't seem to be many tickertape readers for Linux etc, but there are for Windows and Macs. RDF Ticker is free for Windows
and works very well with XP. You can have the Ticker at the bottom or top of the screen and it will refresh at set intervals. Select any headline and it'll open the Forum post
in your Browser (only as long as you are a member of course). Each headline has a small amount of the actual post with it - around the 100 characters that you see on a non-member
search with any referenced e-mails obfuscated.
RSS Readers
If you use FireFox (1.0+) as your browser (this is the latest Mozilla browser and a very worthwhile FREE alternative to Netscape and IE6),
you can try the Sage extension which can format up each headline into various tabular readable formats as below. FireFox will
also automatically display all of our RSS feeds as selectable links on any page they exist.
RSS Info gives you info on many more readers for various OS and Interleave
has more links about RSS.
What feeds does Jag-lovers provide?
If your browser or reader doesn't pick up the feeds from the links in the headers of our pages, here's a list
of the feeds we are supplying - that is a composite of all recent posts to our Forums/Lists plus a feed for each of the majority of the individual
Lists/Forums. Each feed has the 20 most recent posts, checked every 5 minutes and updated where necessary:
Forums RSS-feed Composite http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Collectibles http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_collectibles.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Concours http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_concours.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Daimlan http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_daimlan.xml
Forums RSS-feed for E-Type http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_e-type.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Jag News http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_jag-news.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Jag News Discussion http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_jag-news-discussion.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Lumps http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_lumps.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Pre-XK http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_pre-xk.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Pub http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_pub.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Racing http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_racing.xml
Forums RSS-feed for S-Type http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_s-type.xml
Forums RSS-feed for Saloons http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_saloons.xml
Forums RSS-feed for V12 Engine http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_v12-engine.xml
Forums RSS-feed for X-Type http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_x-type.xml
Forums RSS-feed for X300 http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_x300.xml
Forums RSS-feed for XJ http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_xj.xml
Forums RSS-feed for XJ-S http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_xj-s.xml
Forums RSS-feed for XJ40s http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_xj40.xml
Forums RSS-feed for XK http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_xk.xml
Forums RSS-feed for XK Engine http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_xk-engine.xml
Forums RSS-feed for XK8/R http://forums.jag-lovers.org/forum_rss_xk8.xml
Tony Bailey November 2004
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