[77369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG via RSS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Wed Jan 19 09:56:15 2005
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87pt01h5kn.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:55:19 +0100
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On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:11 -0500, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
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> "Mike Callahan" <mcallahan@bullseyetelecom.net> writes:
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> > By any chance is this list available via xml/rss?
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> There are several email to rss gateway software packages out there; it
> would be trivial to roll your own.
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> 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
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