Re: [syndication] Re: Revisting NNTP?

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <99eef5+8ln8@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>Then it seems reasonable to consider attaching the XML that created 
>the message via MIME.  Either attach the entire feed or just enough 
>to describe that one item.

Been thinking about this and also with respect to the XML-RPC over smtp
and SOAP over smtp efforts. I think all these approaches really ought to
use Mime multipart and attach raw XML to the message as an attachment.
This is a little more work to code but shouldn't be hard both to create
and to parse.

Adding a human readable part as well would be optional. Any attempt to
define that the Subject line, some header or some part of the body
contains a particular piece of the puzzle is always going to run into
interop and standardization issues.  

In the context of RSS over nntp, this would mean that the attachment
should be a completely valid RSS file including channel information.
It's then up to the sender how often they create one and how many items
it contains. If they want to generate a message for every new item, it
would just have one item entry. If they want to do an end of day message
it would have any new items added that day.  

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