Re: [syndication] RSS 0.94

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

I am not stopping you from doing any such thing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Morbus Iff" <morbus@disobey.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.94


> >So who exactly is stopping you from commenting, in a threaded fashion or
>
> Primarily, you are. Since you're not willing to take the discussion to
> mailing lists, there's no way I can find the time to read through every
> site you (or anyone else) has linked. With a mailing list, all the
> discussion comes into one mailbox, and I can read the plain-text
discussion
> at my leisure. When I respond, I respond to the list, so that everyone
else
> can read my thoughts.
>
> With the web-based discussion, I have to run around to multiple websites
> (with the negatives already listed in the previous email) and then, when
> devising a response, post it to my site, optionally emailing (emailing!)
> everyone else saying "here are my thoughts on your thoughts". I simply
> don't have the time to load up thirty different sites (isn't it ironic
that
> RSS, being intended as a syndication format devoid of design elements, can
> only be discussed within the confines of the chaff it's meant to remove?).
>
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