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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:ai
+from __future__ import with_statement
+
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class Slashdot(BasicNewsRecipe):
+             title          = u'Slashdot.org'
+             oldest_article = 7
+             max_articles_per_feed = 100
+             language = _('English')
+             __author__ = 'floweros'
+             no_stylesheets = True
+             keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'article'})]
+             remove_tags    = [
+                 dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'userlogin-title'}),
+                 dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'userlogin-content'}),
+                 dict(name='div',attrs={'id':'commentwrap'}),
+                 dict(name='span',attrs={'id':'more_comments_num_a'}),
+                 ]
+
+             feeds          = [
+                 (u'Slashdot',
+ u'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=5072'),
+                 (u'/. IT',
+ u'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotIT'),
+                 (u'/. Hardware',
+ u'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotHardware'),
+                 (u'/. Linux',
+ u'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux'),
+                 (u'/. Your Rights Online',
+ u'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline')
+                 ]
+
+