Hi John,
On 2009-06-02 18:10 John G. Scudder said the following:
[Speaking of such things, re-sending from my whitelisted address.]
On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
At 9:58 AM -0400 6/2/09, Richard Barnes wrote:
Might this be an appropriate use of RSS/atom?
...
Wearing my ex-co-chair-of-Atompub-WG hat, this was one of our design
goals for Atom. Every announce-style mailing list could be replaced
by, or have parallel backup of, an Atom feed.
This seems to me to be the most helpful suggestion that's come out of
this discussion so far. I would summarize the rest of the discussion
as "email sucks and is a woefully inappropriate tool for high-volume
communication and task management, and it's only getting worse."
Unfortunately.
Rather than trying to figure out which color to paint our email buggy-
whips and if they need pinstripes, it would seem more productive to
focus on other kinds of tools such as are discussed above.
If you or anybody else in the crowd would write a tool to which I can
pipe an email message and give an argument indicating which alias it
belongs to, where the tool will then update an atom feed appropriately,
I'll be happy to deploy the tool and host the feeds.
I have an IETF tools related TODO list with enough stuff on it for maybe
2 to 5 years of full-time work; the above won't happen particularly soon
if it has to wait for me to find the time to write the tool.
Regards,
Henrik