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.
I was never so hot on it and am still not, but I see it as another channel
to use and I'm willing to use it.
> Regarding your changes - sounds like you're moving towards message boards
and away from email lists.
Not at all. I'm just giving alternate ways to read the list content. The
main focus is the email with a secondary focus on the site. I can't really
make the email better (beyond adding list controls by email), so the focus
is on making the site better and getting more info out there. You still need
to be a list member to post though. If I had a good way of getting the list
content onto NNTP, I'd be there as well. I want us to be everywhere. :)
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