Changes Vr. 1.21 (2004-10-01)

New: Added two "ready to run" demo scripts to load some RSS example feeds of categories world news, science and security from various sources (Yahoo, BBC, New York Times, US-CERT, Microsoft).
New: Added a new "How to load RSS and ATOM feeds?" in helpfile giving some basic information on this topic. Also available online: http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/doc/howto/load-rss-feeds.htm
Chg: Some changes related with the handling of RSS and ATOM feeds:

- Assume character set "UTF-8" unless declared differently by feed.

- Headers and body of posted messages are "UTF-8" encoded now if they contain any non ASCII characters.

- Additional statements for author and date in feeds are taken into account now.

- Replaced posted error message by a "Warning" in logfile.

- If feed contains readable date details, the given date is used for the "Date:" header of generated messages.

Note: Changes may cause a one-time repost of otherwise unchanged feeds.
New: Added an additional parameter for the "HamWebReader" script command to modify the "From:" header of posted messages.
New: Added an additional parameter for the "HamWebReader" script command to save the raw feed files in subdirectory "rss" of logfile directory.
New: Added the new script command "HamWebUseProxy" to define any required HTTP proxy settings in subsequent calls of "HamWebReader".
Fix: Wrong date format was used when creating RSS 2.0 feed from a newsgroup (script RssFeedGenerator.hsc).
Fix: User Task command "WAIT-ALL" did not wait for other tasks if own tasks have already been finished.
Fix: When checking for local mail addresses, comparison was still case sensitive (former fix in 1.15 did not work).
New: Newsgroup lists are rebuild automatically now after new groups were reported by a server or the group lists were reloaded. It happens as soon as no other tasks are running any more.

Changes Vr. 1.20

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