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



On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:14:36PM +0000, Julian Bond wrote:
> Bill Kearney <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net> wrote:
>
> >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.

Well, as of version 4.0, MySQL can be embedded.  Perhaps that will
help to blur things a bit? :-)

Jeremy
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