LaughingMeme: RSSifying the Mailing List, an update
February 28, 2003 - 9:01am — bmann
Now this is a good idea, and another good example of intertwingling:
Dan Brickley just mentioned a patch to Mailman for producing RSS feeds for a list.
Check out this blurb, as well as the other interesting items that LaughingMeme has to offer (including the much longer, original post about this, back in Nov. '02).
RSS, RSS aggregators -- these seem to be turning into the common format for pushing/mixing data all over the web. With blogs, increasingly, being on the "input" side of the stream.
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Postings and comments are owned by their authors. What Boris says here doesn't necessarily apply anywhere else. You can subscribe by email if RSS isn't your bag, baby.
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I dunno
I like mailing lists because they're slightly antiquated, tends to discourage noisiness.
RSS feeds don't change the "antiquity"
Just allows access from a wider audience, and it's not a two-way thing -- there may be meta-discusions about/around the list feed, which may encourage more people to sign up, but the communication will all still go through the list.
more subs = more noise
usually, unless list is moderated.