[Sigia-l] Notification schema?

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"Eric Scheid" wrote:

> Unfortunately email still has the upper hand even here. It's call the POP3
> server: an intermediary store and forward facility. THis means I can
> disconnect my laptop from the net, go hiking for a week (or fly business
> class from here to timbuktu and back again), and when I return I can
> retrieve *all* email that was sent to me in the meantime.
> 
> No such facility as yet with RSS :-(

It's utterly and trivially easy to do that, with a "Delete messages older
than [  ] hours" type of a pref setting.

> There is one minor advantage of RSS over email though -- if I sign up for
> notifications via email I would typically only get the notifications as of
> when I sign up, but with RSS from the moment I sign up I can retrieve the
> RSS feed which includes some notifications from before I signed up.

Again, you are confusing what a particular RSS client is capable of doing
today with what the conceptual notion of RSS as a platform is. RSS is
essentially an XML file which you parse to get at data. If you are in a
corporate setting, frankly, there's no reason why you couldn't take the
basic "change notification" notion and customize it to whatever your needs
are. You can have as simple or as complex a structure as you'd care to
develop, since you control both sides of the equation.


Ziya
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