On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, Jason White wrote:

> Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > While doubtless useless to you, I feel compelled to mention that
> > gwene.org, which translates RSS/Atom's idiotic design into a newsgroup,
> > so you can read it with a real newsreader (like gnus).  gwene groups are
> > also carried by gmane.org, which does the same thing for mailing lists,
> > like this one.
>
> That's a very good idea - let's just convert ATOM/RSS feeds to NNTP.
>
> There is a proliferation of protocols: SMTP, NNTP, RSS/ATOM, XMPP, IRC, etc.,
> in addition to Web APIs for various services that all perform similar but
> slightly different functions. I sometimes wonder whether we'll see more
> consolidation of such protocols in the future.

Bwuhahaha.  Seriously?

http://xkcd.com/927/

(for the visually impaired, you may still be able to read the display:
none text transcript in that comic)


(and you think this 15th protocol will be superior to any of the
previous attempts?)

-- 
Tim Connors
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