On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:55:19 +0100, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:11 -0500, Robert E.Seastrom wrote: > > > > "Mike Callahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > By any chance is this list available via xml/rss? > > > > There are several email to rss gateway software packages out there; it > > would be trivial to roll your own. > > > > YMMV, but after reading a couple of other mailing lists that were > > gatewayed to rss, my sense is that RSS is not the right technology for > > reading NANOG unless one were to create a "first article only" feed. > > I am actually wonder if RSS has an advantage at all compared to a > mailinglist, especially as RSS is a pull mechanism, if there is nothing > or not a lot happening it will be polling the server a lot of times > needlessy, thus causing server resources. While of course a mailinglist > has the overhead of the email headers. But I am quite convinced of the > idea that a push * 25.000 subscribers is lighter load on the server than > having a continues pull by those 25.000 subscribers... > > Next to that, my mailbox simply shows the articles I have not read and I > throw out what I did read and can easily reply to what I like to reply > to. Personally thus RSS has not much value, just like NNTP actually, > even though NNTP comes quite close to email. > > Greets, > Jeroen >
Try pointing your subscription to Gmail. Plenty of space to hold a nice archive. Quickly Searchable, accessible from anywhere, automatic threading. Make a label and matching filter for each mailing-list...make's thing nice and sorted automatically. Your Gmail acc't can be accessed via rss too, so there's that. --chip Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....
