Re: [syndication] RSS aggregators for non-technical folk

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Bill Kearney <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net> wrote:
> I dump all my data into an Exchange server as both per-feed and per-item
> objects.

How long do you keep it for and how big is your data-store now?

> In all, it's the ability to use a flexible repository that's key, not the
> format.

I keep questioning it, but I'm still convinced that an RSS aggregator 
really needs a database. Even though I use MySQL, it doesn't have to be 
relational, that's just the way I think. This tends to work against 
client side aggregators a bit as requiring a real database to run does 
restrict things a bit. But for server side it's trivial as any apache 
system is very likely to already have mysql along with php, perl and 
python. And any MS ASP system is likely to have access to a SQL Server.

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