Ok, let's consider RSS first, because that's easier to cleanly add to
mail-archive, assuming MHonArc can generate one. An RSS feed really
would need to
a) not consume a ton of resources. So that probably means
containing just the most recent N messages, where N is
small. Ten sounds nice.
b) not be a potential source for address harvesting. People
are very sensitive about this.
c) be implemented by someone who actually wants the feature. I
would inherently do a bad job since I don't actually use RSS
myself. I can offer is a name in the credits, and an example
of how I did the RDF feed, but that's it.
Cheers,
Jeff
<!-- This is a MHonArc rcfile designed to generate RDF output. This
rcfile is called via OTHERINDEXES from the master rcfile. The RDF
format is designed for computer to computer communications of data,
and might be used for providing information produced on one web
site for display or links on another. RDF contains content
information -- and absolutely no information regarding how to
render that content. I used the following resources when
implementing RDF support.
<A HREF="http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf";>
http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf</A>
<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/RDF/Implementations/SiRPAC/";>
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Implementations/SiRPAC/</A>
This rcfile depends on a variable $X-MAILLIST$ which must be
defined in the MHonArc call (using -definevar) Additionally, this
rcfile has many hardcoded references to mail-archive.com.
Jeff Breidenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Time-stamp: "Sat 02/26/2000 23:53:54" -->
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<!-- Section 0: Configuration adjustments -->
<!-- ------------------------------------ -->
<!-- How many messages do we want on the RDF index? -->
<idxsize>
10
</idxsize>
<!-- What file shall we write the RDF index to? -->
<idxfname>
maillist.rdf
</idxfname>
<!-- ----------------------------- -->
<!-- Section 1: Specify RDF markup -->
<!-- ----------------------------- -->
<ssmarkup>
<?xml version="1.0"?><rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/";>
</ssmarkup>
<idxpgbegin>
<channel>
<title>$IDXTITLE$ mailing list</title>
<link>http://www.mail-archive.com/$X-MAILLIST$</link>
<description>Email archive for $IDXTITLE$.</description>
</channel>
<image>
<title>Mail-Archive.com</title>
<url>http://www.mail-archive.com/nanologo.gif</url>
<link>http://www.mail-archive.com</link>
</image>
</idxpgbegin>
<litemplate>
<item>
<title>$SUBJECTNA$</title>
<link>http://www.mail-archive.com/$X-MAILLIST$/$MSG$</link>
</item>
</litemplate>
<idxpgend>
</rdf:RDF>
</idxpgend>
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------- -->
<!-- Section 2: Remove any HTML left from default settings -->
<!-- ----------------------------------------------------- -->
<listbegin>
</listbegin>
<listend>
</listend>
<nodoc>
<nomultipg>
<main>
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<!-- End -->
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