Gmail Atom Feed

[Lee Gibbs]

I logged into my secondary account today, to find a rather unusual surprise.
Below the labels there is an icon saying 'Atom Feed', which links to
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom. lee....@gmail.com does not
show the change though -

The non-edited screenshot (apart from the e-mail address at the top
which has been edited) is here

http://www.imageuploader.net/images/807285inbox.PNG

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Lee
(lee....@gmail.com)

[CarLBanks]

How would atom work? If someone got a hold of your atom link it would
mean your account was readable by others.

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[T. M. Tracy]

I'm sure it might need user/pass auth...
I mean come on...give google some freaking credit. You think they
would just have an atom feed to your email free avail to anyone who
get's your link?

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tmt...@gmail.com
(http://ttzcg5.VOTEorNOT.org/?r=1)

"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is
why several of us died of tuberculosis."

[Derek]

yah dude... lets give gmail a little more credit. those smart bastards!

[Lee Gibbs]

QUOTE: hmm, first...that's not your screenshot...someone else took it, so how
do you know that it's real? second...that link dosen't work for me.
heh. =)

Actually I took the screenshot on my second account

The link is https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom - I think it only
works when you're logged into an account with this button.

For concrete proof - here's the button URL:

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/images/atom-badge.gif


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Lee
(lee....@gmail.com)

[Derek]

yup that looks like a legit button from google.

[CarLBanks]

I know, hmm it would be possible. Atom feeding is great.

[CarLBanks]

I wish I had an atom feed for Gmail.

[Derek]

when you got the image properties for that atom button...was there a
link associated with it?

[T. M. Tracy]

yeah, he said it was something like...
==

I logged into my secondary account today, to find a rather unusual surprise.
Below the labels there is an icon saying 'Atom Feed', which links to
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom. lee....@gmail.com does not
show the change though -

==
read the first posts... =p

[Derek]

damnit i don't know how i let that one slip by... i should have caught
that first post. oh hell... i guess im still a newbie.. what are you
going to do about it?

[T. M. Tracy]

nothing on gmail-users... *wink* but you can't post on the lounge anymore...

[Derek]

oh bummer... no more posting in the lounger. i might as well throw
myself off a cliff

[T. M. Tracy]

Lol, I was just kidding...

[T. M. Tracy]

haha

[Lee Gibbs]

yeah - it's a legitimate link

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Lee
(lee....@gmail.com)

[Derek]

don't worry man.. i knew your where kidding...

[Triple Seven]

So anyway... Has anyone else seen this? I checked my three other
accounts, and none of them show the atom link. Could this be something
they tried for a few minutes, and took off?

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Yours,
Triple Seven.
tri...@gmail.com

[T. M. Tracy]

no...I looked at my 24 accounts, 25 including this one...and it's not
on any of them.

[Derek]

i checked all the accounts that i could and none of them showed any
atom feed either.

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 02:31:22 +0200, Triple Seven <tri...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[CarLBanks]

I checked my one account, this one, and I can't find any atom feed.

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

24!? *head explodes*
:P

Fanis

[Derek]

you're ALL selfish bastards for having so many accounts... LOL.. what
happened to just enjoying one single account?

[CarLBanks]

I enjoy one single account.

[Triple Seven]

As do I. One for each type of "pleasure"; I enjoy one for my blog, one
for my personal life, one for double-life, one for business, one for
news, one for forums and the likes, one for online shopping and the
likes.
Triple 7 is my name, and seven's my game. =P
LOL. I don't really have that many (well, I do, but I don't use that
many), I only use like 3-4 of them.

[T. M. Tracy]

I just did it for shits, because I had like 24 invites to give
away...and no one wanted them. this was before the spooler. I give
em there now.

[Derek]

see i used to have a couple gmail accounts but i realized it was a
pain in the ass to go between accounts to catch up with all my mail. i
figure i might as well keep one single account to save some time.

[Derek]

hey thats why i had a couple accounts.. no one wanted the invites so i
used them. now im much nicer and dontate them to the spooler as well.

[Ali Kazmi]

When I saw the Atom Feed button, I resisted the urge to push it. U
know, with the world going increasingly nuclear... I decided NOT TO
PUSH THE BUTTON. Then the button never reappeared. So this is the
trick, now I get it... :-)

[T. M. Tracy]

Ok, I understand the joke, hehe. but DID you really see this button? heh

[Andrei Gheorghe]

https://gmail.google.com/gmail/this/sure/is/interesting/

[Ali Kazmi]

O yes Tracy, I did see the button, but I thought it was something like
the RSS feed thingy, so I didn't give it much thought. Then it never
reappeared. Aha, its there if u give it a thought, else its gone...
Now I get it... ;-)

My God, this link by Andrei sure is interesting...


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:14:42 +0300, Andrei Gheorghe <and...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://gmail.google.com/gmail/this/sure/is/interesting/
>

[Lee Gibbs]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <feed version="0.3" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">
<title>Gmail - Inbox for ------@gmail.com</title>
<tagline>New messages in your Gmail Inbox</tagline>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://gmail.google.com/gmail"
type="text/html" />
<modified>2004-10-03T06:56:09Z</modified>
</feed>

^ That's what comes up when I click the link


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Lee
(lee....@gmail.com)

[Sean]

So... what would this atom feed actually do? Is it some sort of RSS xml
thing? That's kinda what it sounds like but i'm not sure what it would
do.

[Derek]

i guess if it worked correctly.. you would be able to read your unread
messages like you do rss feeds.

[Kishyr Ramdial]

Mozilla Firefix 1-PR has a really cool RSS feature that, when browsing
an RSS-enabled site, gives you the option of subscribing to that site
and making "live bookmarks". With Atom, it's very similiar to RSS, so
I'd imagine it'd make live bookmarks of your GMail unread mail. Really
handy if you ask me.

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[Derek]

yeh im hoping this is an 'option' for gmail users some time down the line.

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

While we're hovering around the subject, you should try out the Sage
extension for Firefox. It presents RSS feeds in a very easy-to-read
manner, and makes adding new ones a snap by "discovering" them in the
page you're browsing.

http://sage.mozdev.org

Fanis

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:06:59 +0200, Kishyr Ramdial <kis...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Derek]

thanks fanis.. im checking it out right now.. i always thought the one
built into firefox was somewhat limited.

[Kishyr Ramdial]

Wow, that's an amazing extension! :)

[Triple Seven]

I personally find Sage abit too "smart" It doesn't mark threads as
read properly, and have difficulty in parsing a feed with multiple
urls.

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

Ah yes, I too find the "mark as read" issue kind of annoying. I just
hope it will be fixed in future releases. It still is a very well
written extension. It only makes sense to have the RSS reader _built
in_ the browser. Less loss of focus and more efficiency with tabbed
browsing :)

Fanis

[Adam Lasnik]

Two thoughts:

1) Why would one want to read one's e-mail via RSS/Atom? What are the
advantages? I only see disadvantages... no read/unread status, no
threading, no ability to easily reply, etc.

2) Um, T.M. Tracy, do you really think you should be publicly bragging
about breaking the "1 account per person" rule of Gmail? And by 23
accounts-worth?! :D

- Adam

[Triple Seven]

1) The advantage is you don't have to log-in to your account, per say,
and it DOES have read/unread functionality (well, actually, it doesn't
exist yet, so it *will*, instead of *does*).
The use of this would be to allow you to read news and news-groups
sent to your email without the need to access it.
I, myself, see no major advantage to this, but it does have it's pros
over the regular reading method, such as a more minimal layout, no
ads, could work on a mobile device, etc.

2) It's not publicly, it's infront of a very small group of people. LOL.
Other than that, do you really think he's the only one holding more
than one account (hint: read the post following his.).
In addition to that, ever heard of "The Screen Savers"? It's a TV show
in the US, about computers and stuff, and there's one guy there,
called Kevin Rose. Heard of him? Unless you leaved under a rock for
the past 5 years, you should know who he is. Anyway, he mentioned the
fact he has several gmail accounts more than once on the show, and so
has pretty much everyone else on that show.
It's no big deal, and google don't *really* care if you have more than
one. Besides, most people who do use multis, end up using only one or
two in the end.

[Scott]

so lee, are you really telling porkies? it looks like you are mate.

[Lee Gibbs]

nope - reply to this post quick if your online - and I'll show you

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Lee
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[T. M. Tracy]

show me gibbs.

[Lee Gibbs]

ok

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Lee
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[T. M. Tracy]

go on yahoo.


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 06:22:35 +0100, Lee Gibbs <lee....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> ok

[Lee Gibbs]

Signed in


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Lee
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[T. M. Tracy]

Dood, I won't ever doubt you again.

Guys, this is for real. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Nice one gibbs.

[Ali Kazmi]

Hey, what what...?
I wanna see it too...

[Uday ☼]

now phleeez tell us how to use it!

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 00:31:15 -0500, T. M. Tracy <tmt...@gmail.com> wrote:
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