[Sigia-l] Notification schema?

[Bill Lovett]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0400, Listera wrote:

> Guess what? RSS works the same way. As I explained previously, you can
> manually click the equivalent of a "Get RSS" button or schedule your RSS
> reader/client to automatically check every XX minutes. Just like your email
> client.

I agree that RSS has a lot of advantages over email, but if you're
already using one system to receive information (your email client) why
should you need a second, separate system for RSS? Especially in this
case, when the information being received could arguably be delivered
either way. The way you recieve RSS may be similar to receiving email,
but one doesn't presume the other. Unless your email client is also a
news aggregator.

That's not to say you can't have it both ways, though-- you might set up
an RSS feed, and also hook in an rss-to-email gateway for those users
who want or need it. The advantage with that approach is that the
information can be delivered through email, where people are already
looking, but also be ready for other types of delivery down the
road.

-bill