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I just spent like an hour fiddling with a (very short) script in order to get the RSS it generates to work in somebody’s preferred RSS reader — one that, I guess, was using a standard XML parser (and therefore couldn’t handle ampersands in URLs) and that could only support RFC882 dates (for some reason).
I have no idea if it worked. I can’t run their RSS readers, and all the readers I have can read this feed just fine. And when…
