Get it. :-)
*edit* — STILL no OPML import? what the? What on earth is the point of having an RSS reader built into it when you can’t import the standard export format for all the other rss readers? I’d have thought they’d get that fixed before releasing something they felt worthy of being an actual release version instead of part of the continual beta. I’m certainly not going to enter dozens of rss feeds in by hand…. Ah well.
OPML/OML is not a very well-designed standard. Did you read the OPML/OML specification? OPML/OML never gains popularity as high as RSS.
There is nothing wrong for Thunderbird to not support OPML/OML.
That’s bull. Thunderbird should certainly support OPML. Just about every news reader out there exports your feed list to OPML format so you can import it elsewhere or use it in web applications. It’s not a competing standard to RSS as you seem to be implying.
Come on! You can either add all of your RSS feeds by hand, one at a time, through their fairly clunky interface… or you can import everything from your current reader in 30 seconds. Which would you choose? If they’re going to position Thunderbird as an RSS reader as well as a mail and newsgroup reader, that’s a must-have function.
You can get OPML out of Thunderbird JC, see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6038
it’s nice that you can export… but that’s export only, not import… and one really should not have to run a perl script simply to use a piece of software that has nothing to do with perl, no?
thanks for the link, though!
I agree with you JC, and I realise it’s export only (that’s why I wrote “out of Thunderbird”). It’s not an ultimate solution but it’s a good hack that could become even more useful if someone figures out how to do an import.