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[tools-yak@collab] Re: RSS for mailing list archives

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From: "Eric Sinclair" <esinclai@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:42:40 -0800
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<delurk>    (01)

At best i've got maybe 2 cents worth of opinion on this topic.    (02)

Since moving my primary environment to OSX (reinvention of my world by 
return to old familiar faces), i've noticed that I now retrieve a 
majority of my updating news (blog, etc) via polling RSS aggregation.  
So int that sense I would welcome this.  In some skunkworks stuff I have 
used, pushing these feeds into a RTC environment (chat, IM, etc) further 
leverages this nicely.    (03)

The advantage is that RSS when "done right" (where the value of right 
may vary per individual, but play along...) provides succinct summations 
of a new or updated entity that I can subscribe to.  The value of a 
mailing list would probably be diminished for those lists I am a 
subscribing member of; where this would be very useful is in higher 
traffic lists where a subset of the topics are of interest to me, but 
not the totality (note: this list is in the former, not latter, 
category).    (04)

Another option I've seen discussed is RSS feeds for CVS users, which I 
think would be similarly useful.    (05)

   http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004170.html#004170    (06)

-Eric, who having delurked now needs to catch up on things he meant to 
say    (07)

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 3:39PM -0600, Chris Dent wrote ( 
http://collab.blueoxen.net/forums/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=tools-yak&i=Pine.LNX.4.30.0302261630040.1476-100000@hot.burningchrome.com    (08)

):    (09)

> Danny Ayers posted on his semantic weblog about support for RSS
> in mailman list archives:
>
>    http://www.citnames.com/blog/archive/2003_02_23_index.html#89704372
>
> Danny, do you (or anyone else for that matter) have any comments
> on how you see this being used and useful? It's something I've
> thought would be valuable for mail archives and wikis
> (RecentChanges in RSS) for some time now, but I haven't gotten
> over the hump to do anything about it.    (010)

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