Default RSS reader option

What does the preference in both Safari > Prefs > RSS > Default RSS reader and Mail > Prefs > RSS > Default RSS reader do?
Until now I've been doing all my RSS in Safari, which is OK but not stellar.
Now that Mail supports RSS in 10.5, I'm experimenting with it there. But as far as I can tell, RSS feeds that are subscribed to in either app seem to get updated in either app. So what does the "default RSS feed" do?

Hi
When you open (expand) an RSS feed in either Safari or Mail, either Safari will go to the actual page (if set as the default), or a specific RSS Reader will open.

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# Depends on:
# * coreutils
# * curl
# * python3
# * python-feedparser
# * youtube-dl
# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Configuration and URLs - - - - - - - - - - - - - #
be_quiet = False # True disables output (Good for cron)
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history_file = "/home/keller/.rss_history"
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("Doghouse Diaries", "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thedoghousediaries/feed"),
("Cyanide & Happiness", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/Explosm"),
("XKCD", "http://xkcd.com/rss.xml"),
("Scandinavia And The World", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/satwcomic?format=xml"),
("Surviving The World", "http://survivingtheworld.net/feed.xml"),
("Something Of That Ilk", "http://somethingofthatilk.com/rss/index.php"),
("Invisible Bread", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/InvisibleBread"),
("Happle Tea", "http://www.happletea.com/feed/"),
("Dilbert", "http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip"),
("What-If", "http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom"),
("Networking Nerd", "http://networkingnerd.net/feed/"),
("Fry Guy's Blog", "http://www.fryguy.net/feed/"),
("Ethereal Mind", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/etherealmind?format=xml"),
("Packet Pushers", "http://feeds.feedburner.com/PacketPushersBlogsOnly"),
("Lone SysAdmin", "http://lonesysadmin.net/feed/"),
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("Freddie", "freddiew"),
("Freddie BTS", "freddiew2"),
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("Scam School", "http://revision3.com/scamschool/feed/MP4-Large"),
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from feedparser import parse
from os import system
from sys import argv
import pickle
# -- Argument Parse
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This is a zero hassle RSS reader. It is designed to be source configured and
run without a care in the world. Cron it, script it, just plain run it...
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(Simply mark as old.)
-q, --quiet Don't talk.
-v, --say-something The opposite of -q.
exit()
if "--no-download" in argv:
no_download = True
if "--quiet" in argv or "-q" in argv:
be_quiet = True
if "--say-something" in argv or "-v" in argv:
be_quiet = False
# -- Unpickle History
try:
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except:
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if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
for entry in parse(url[1]).entries:
current_links.append(entry.link)
if entry.link not in history["link"]: # If is a new link
if not be_quiet : print(" * New Content Found!")
if no_download or system('echo "<a href=\"' + entry.link + '\">' + url[0] + ' : ' + entry.title + '</a><br />" >> ' + download_dir + 'links.html') == 0: # Append to file
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if entry.media_content[0]["url"][-4] == '.': # Check it's a file
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if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
for entry in parse("https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/" + url[1] + "/uploads").entries:
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if not be_quiet : print("Checking", url[0] + "...")
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for link in entry.links:
if link.type[0:5] == "video" or link.type[0:5] == "audio": # If _IT_ describes itself as video or audio
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for key in history:
for link in history[key]:
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pickle.dump(history, open(history_file, "wb"))
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