Hi, I am new at all these! Let me introduce myself. I have been programming for years in other languajes. But I have now discovered that Perl really seduces me. And I learned a lot with your script. What I am not sure to understand is this: ¿Are you able to modify the .dat file that updates at your local proxy? If so, you could change the contents, and get news from everywhere in the WWW inside your BBC news ticker! Not that it is so difficult to build a newsticker, but you could offer your idea to some sites to do the same in a very cheap way. There is no big deal to read .RSS news and put them in your BBC ticker via your local proxy. But it happends that I know nothing of proxies and am not sure if the format is easy to understand in order to modify it's content. Thank you for your article! Alberto

In reply to Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file by chanio
in thread News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file by SuperCruncher

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