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

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

Rick Bradley <roundeye@roundeye.net> writes:

> * burton@relativity.yi.org (burton@relativity.yi.org) [010820 15:10]:
> > I was thinking of configuring my mail reader to support serialization to RSS but
> > it would be limited to the groups I subscribe to.
> 
> Then subscribe to more :-)
> 
> Seriously, if you have control of your MTA you could create an address for
> your subscriptions, subscribe that address to a bunch of lists, and set a
> procmail rule for that address to /dev/null everything but ANNOUNCE messages,
> and pass those to a serializer.  Depending on your pipe and your MTA box you
> probably wouldn't have too much trouble with the additional load (assuming
> your appetites are within reason).

Yes... I realize your point.  It should be possible to do this but a concise
solution would be nice.

It isn't very clean or open for one person to do this.  IE if there were an
engine which could group together lists in to "Java announcements" or "XML
announcements" this would be superior to my own personal syndication efforts.

Kevin

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