Nick Arnett wrote:Mailman (see http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html) is becoming a widely used mailing list server. There is some serious discussion beginning about building a new list archiver for it. This could include a mechanism for making such archives friendlier with robots, I suspect.
I'd suggest that it include a mechanism for robots to retrieve updates via a single transaction
I'd think that RSS is the obvious candidate. It's here, well-defined, well-debugged, tons of software out there for it. I think it could be made to do more or less exactly what you want.
RSS 1.0 looked very good when I researched it for OSCOM last year. There's no mechanism for indicating deleted pages, but mailing list archives don't delete, so that's OK. ICE is a more full-featured syndication standard, and at least one person told me it would probably work better than RSS.
Avi
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