[Sigia-l] Notification schema?

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"Bill Lovett" wrote:

> 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?

Because you have a "system" to receive RSS already on your PC? It's called
your web browser, if you don't want to use anything else.

I'm not sure folks quite understand what RSS is, conceptually. It's not an
end-user client specification, it's a conduit for change notification. If
your email client understood RSS, and one day soon it may, you could read
your RSS feeds within your email client, too. Any app that can poll a URL
and parse a response can essentially become an RSS "client": web browser,
Excel, Word, iTunes...anything.

Why choose RSS over email? Because "RSS has a lot of advantages over email"
for change notification.

Why need a "second" system? Because it was designed for it. We don't surf
the web through our email client, although the email app likely has exactly
the same HTML renderer that's in your web browser. We don't ditch the email
app just because you can read your email through a web browser, as many
people do. Do we?

Ziya
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