I love this whole 'blog craze' of the last few years. As it evolves, and people have begun to aggregate like-minded blogs (fullasagoog), it further and further resembles old skool bbs's and newsgroups. The only difference is that each original message and their child comments are decentralized on the originator's server(technically cool), and they control who can comment on it(not so cool). Furthering the similarities are tools like RSS2NNTP - now I can read aggregated RSS feeds in the same old News reader I used years ago, the only difference being that it's one way communication (unless I wanted to go to their site, register, give my email address, be authorized, and login everytime I want to comment). I think it's great to standardize, but they should build two way communication into the RSS standard. Without that key feature, it just seems like a bunch of extra work to get back to a less functional place than we were 20 years ago just so people can have their own domain name and custom layout for their messages. Please somebody set me straight on my understanding of this if I'm misunderstood - happens a lot.

Regarding your changes - sounds like you're moving towards message boards and away from email lists.

Adam.

>The RSS will look like this:
>http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/rss.cfm
>It'll be loaded every 10-20 minutes and will hold the last 50-100 threads per
>list (I'm still deciding on exact numbers).
>
>The voting will be a link (no ready for people yet) which will be in the footer
>of all posts. Anyone can click on it and get to a voting screen for a message.
>The vote is basically:
>not important
>neutral
>important
>A thread message with enough important votes will be flagged in the message
>display. A thread with enough important votes will be flagged as well. The point
>of it is to allow people to indicate which threads and/or messages are important
>for others to read. A new button on the site will get only the important
>threads/messages for people who are in a rush or who are looking to compile
>docs/faqs from the lists.
>A perfect example is a thread I started a few days back in CF-Talk. The subject
>had to do with causing a CF page to 'sleep' and come back on line. There was a
>UDF mentioned on another list that I reposted. Very interesting and useful. That
>message was important. A person or two saying that it was nice or that the owner
>was being seen more was not really important. A message that expanded on the
>java call used by the UDF would have been important as well. End result would
>have been a thread of 4 or more messages with at least 2 of them listed as
>important and the others not.
>Eventually, some custom display code to hide the unimportant or OT posts to a
>specific list (not this one as all posts are OT)can be added.
>
>> nice to see someone else up trying to pull ideas out of their brain. But
>> erm, what are you testing exactly?
>>
>
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