On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:
It's not. Credit for RSS stuff probably circles back to Dave Winer,
among others.
Dave likes to *ahem* steal credit for RSS, but it was actually Netscape
who came up with RSS. But this is a digression. I meant the idea of
using
RSS for email pull, not the credit for RSS itself. Not that this
matters
one iota.
I'd point out the "among others", but point taken. RSS has been around
longer, but I think integrating it into Manila was one thing that gave
it momentum.
4 years ;-) But yes, the applications of RSS are quite extensive.
I've only been really watching RSS and CDF and stuff for 18 months, and
I first discovered it about 2 years ago. What went on before, I haven't
really researched yet...
Neat. Sounds a lot like the work I did on O'Reilly's WebBoard to add
RSS
distribution back in 2000 (just in case anyone decides to patent this:
I
still have the cvs archives).
damn. (grin)
That meant you could get access to the
discussion groups via NNTP, email, Web browser, or some alternate
interface by pulling RSS files. Shame O'Reilly decided to close their
software division before we finished it ;-)
which basically mimics what I did for the Apple lists in 1998, minus
the RSS. and when I realized that of the many users only 12 were using
the NNTP interface, I stopped supporting it. Some of them are still
pissed at me, but from a time perspective, the cost per user was too
high. Now, I'm looking at redoing all my archives in a nice,
self-configuring way, adding RSS feeds to them, and than cloaking email
addresses out of them for safety sake. And then after lunch, deal with
the posting side of it.. (grin)
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