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From where you want to get feed
<xoops-site>/backend.php
as example

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You can fetch to show not only all records, but can select only some interesting parts, using strings from item's title and|or links
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Each feed can have different languages, thus - different encodings, which must be converted to you local site's codepage

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Check database settings in mainfile.php

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If you can say, which MTA used on your site and can later perform heavy modification of it's config - I'll try to find answer on your question (except web-face for managing queues)

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Try to see at it from other side (not opposite, but different)
Each site dedicated to some theme, and if you can't define it, or it's a "mix of unmixamble things" - it's bad planned site. Site "about all near..." is really "site about nothing". In your example I (personally) will hate idea to aggregate into target audience so different categories as your suggested
From my POV - each site have one topic, categories and modules offer only different view on it and|or some of it's sides... If you want strict topic separation on site - maybe it's time to think about separation site into network of sites?!
Not a best, but still usable example (I think) - my own project E-City (some free services, which I miss as widely offered and create for me and others), oriented to (rather wide) target - old, power, great "grey" netizens - from first minutes of idea was (is and will be) separated to different sites in one net (thanks to subsite module): one service (one type of users) - one site
And I haven't "module problem" this way - each visiter can be interested in all site, which part is more needed can be defined only by user's mind, but user have all in hands - all what hecan want to use-read-improve - and nothing more... useless... what I must separate into separate cross-site topics.
All site offtipics are topics on other net's sites and user know it and can jump, if you he wants
I.e user does not truncate incoming information by default (s you suggested), he can add additional channels, when and if it will be needed.

Fufff, hope I wrote my thinkings in redable and usable form. I not - sorry, "My mothetongue is not English, but C++"

I think, most of Xoopsers haven't such type of problem - downloads eats small part of bandwidth and sever's load... or, as it done for www.xoops.org, use third-party systems with pre-made mirrors (SF, for example).
Your addon can be useful, I think, but in form of "full automated load-balancing", which, from my POV, can be reached such way
- work of ...downloads, which used slightly modified data-structure and add (at least) one additional table "Mirrors list", from which you select on each request next mirror (or impement some type of weightened selection policy)
- final download link will give additional parameter "active mirror", which can identify source of download and you have only handle this parameter and touch nothing more

Just dirty idea

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I'm not so sure - at least RSSFit generates nice and 100% valid RSS using css only. You can it see at my feed

Good, but unfinished attempt... At least dirty HTML-tags on page seems ugly

It have some problems, at least it 2.73 - one problem related to 8-bit texts, another is more common... Two XHLD diffeent versions can't live at site... At least I get "blanl page" bug, when try to reach .../xhld0/ (2.53) with installed /xhld1/ from v.2.73. Can find reasons, but - have facts
Last full usable is 2.53 (which identifies himlelf as 2.52)

Don't worrky about hack - I suppose, some new bot was born in this day, 12 Dec - because I saw in my blog comments added by "strange" user (I have allowed anonymous posting) about same shit
Added with interval 1 min between submits, rather long text... no additional problems (except "deny comments") detected at host

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You have go tohttp://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/index.php
and with JpGraph (and installed GD on site) you can create cool effects on site - transform text into graphics on the fly (with any avaliable on host font), use vertical alignment for result text...
Ihae a dream to see theme, which was powered with it (I tried to create theme with vertical blocktitle to left-right blocks)