* rss. email.
@ 2004-10-10 3:05 Don Saklad
2004-10-12 4:14 ` Daniel Pittman
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From: Don Saklad @ 2004-10-10 3:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
a. What advantages are there for using rss to read email ?...
b. What are disadvantages are there for using rss to read email ?...
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* Re: rss. email.
2004-10-10 3:05 rss. email Don Saklad
@ 2004-10-12 4:14 ` Daniel Pittman
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From: Daniel Pittman @ 2004-10-12 4:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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)
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