On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 20:39 US/Pacific, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > 1. What is the best RSS reader? I'm writing an RSS feed for all of the > lists and > I'd like to know what people are using and what they feel is the best. > The RSS > feed will be expanded to FA as well.
Windows: Feed Demon; Mac: NetNewsWire. I'd be interested in an FA feed but not a cf-talk feed. cf-talk is too high traffic for RSS in my opinion. > 2. I'm going to add in a link on each post to send the user directly > to the post > in the archive. Should this link be before the message (a header) or > after (a > footer)? Footer - more likely to be visible in mail programs I'd expect. > 3. As an extension to the previous question, does anyone actually look > at the > message footers? Er... sometimes... > 4. As an extension of the previous question, does anyone click on any > of the ads > that are on HoF/FA? (such as the new MM ad) Nope. > 5. Would people like the option to get their mail in HTML format? No. I like ascii email. I've seen some real abominations in terms of fonts and background images that I prefer my mailing lists to stay pure ascii! > 6. Other than a wikki (which I'll look into after the RSS feed), are > there any > features you'd like for the lists? What would be more useful than #2 above would be an In-Reply-To: header with a link to the message in the archives to which the current message was a reply. Is that possible? Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
