Message Forum Sharing (was Fw: New Message: Re: xml namespaces)

[Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Dave Winer wrote:
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> Subject: New Message: Re: xml namespaces

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Totally (well, slightly) off topic:

I don't wanna rewrite NNTP, but it seems that this discussion happening on
two forii (the mailing list and Dave's discussion forum) is a great
example of a need for syndication technologies.

I talked with Carl Coryell-Martin of Civilution last weekend, and he and I
have agreed to put together a system to share discussion forum information
by referencing URL, so that along side the comment count on my system you
can look and see if there are comments on any Civilution hosted forum that
stem from the primary URL in my weblog entry. (Civilution hopes to host
comment threads from other weblogs.)

I'm doing paying work this evening (well, okay, I'm putting off paying
work 'cause it's more fun to read the syndication mailing list...), but I
hope to have something simple up this weekend that'll let you query for
response message counts and URL to the head of the message thread based on
a URL, and some sort of push interface. Probably CGI with a text/plain
response for starters, XML-RPC once Carl and I actually get data moving.

Anyway, just thought I'd toss that wrench into the works for giggles.

Dan / http://www.flutterby.com/