From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rss. email. Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:14:07 +1000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87pt3o8tf4.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097557490 14146 80.91.229.6 (12 Oct 2004 05:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 12 07:04:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CHEpw-0002JB-00 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:04:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHEwu-0001mV-Gy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CHEwe-0001ko-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CHEwe-0001kD-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHEwd-0001jh-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CHEpd-0000TS-BI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CHEpb-0007kU-00 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:04:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 220-244-179-14-vic.tpgi.com.au ([220.244.179.14]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:04:15 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by 220-244-179-14-vic.tpgi.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:04:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220-244-179-14-vic.tpgi.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lazD3EpXZW4T1TqFqs/pmfh5u1A= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21203 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21203 On 10 Oct 2004, Don Saklad wrote: This isn't really the best forum for asking these questions, unless you want specific advice about using Emacs to perform these tasks. That said: > a. What advantages are there for using rss to read email ?... None, really. RSS is a transport mechanism for encoding content pulled from some server to another machine, in a fairly standard format. It doesn't provide any advantages over the standard email transports (RFC2822 message bodies, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP) as a general rule. It /does/ have advantages if you are looking to publish regular news items, in some cases, compared to using a mailing list. If you are looking to do that, though, you would be better served elsewhere. > b. What are disadvantages are there for using rss to read email ?... You need to pack the email content into a format that is *completely* different, and non-standard. You need to write special tools to produce the RSS version of your standard email. You need special clients that are extremely poorly adapted to the requirements of email to read the content. Basically, it comes down to the fact that email-over-RSS is a non-standard tool and, as such, you would not have much joy treating it as email. Regards, Daniel -- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon, _Of Studies_ (Essays)