Re: [syndication] grepping for "announce" messages would make a g ood RSS feed.

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil writes:
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> it is
> >having disk problems.
> 
> Um, edumucate me here.

OK Mr President... :)

> Are you talking about generating a list of mailing lists and making that
> list(s) available via RSS? Or are you talking about storing the individual
> messages from each of those lists in RSS?

No... think procmail.

Everytime a new message comes across SMTP I would just look at the Subject
header and if it contained ANNOUNCE I would add it to an RSS feed of
"announcements"  

> If the former, I'm sure this has already been done. Liszt.com used to do this,
> but they seem gone now (can't load in my browser anyway).

It goes to topica.com now...
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> Also something to keep in mind: What problem is this supposed to solve? If
> not a problem, what compelling feature will it provide that will make
> everyone want to use it?

The problem is I have one place to go to find all ANNOUNCEMENTS... 

> I just think we spend a lot of time on these lists (syndication, rss-dev, etc)
> coming up with gee-whiz ideas that have no practical use. I'm not saying
> your's doesn't -- far from it, I'm more than willing to listen to new ideas --
> I just hate seeing folks spend time on idea after idea that just fizzles
> because there's no real problem being addressed.

Kevin

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proprietary == evil