Fw: STOR -- cheap knock-off of RSS?

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <David.Cantrell@Gunter.AF.mil>
To: <dave@scripting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:20 AM
Subject: STOR -- cheap knock-off of RSS?


> Hi Dave,
>
> Thought you might like to see this. A few ASP developers went off on their
> own and developed STOR: the Shared Table of Resources format.
>
> Basically, it's a syndication format just like RSS. And it even has the
same
> information as RSS. Looks like they just wanted to create a "unique"
format.
>
> Caveat: I am an ASP & COM developer, but I don't always smell like one...
;)
>
> http://stors.org
>
> Maybe you can see something in this format that I couldn't. I just don't
see
> how creating a unique format and a dedicated aggregator can possibly
benefit
> flow. Maybe you could enlighten me?
>
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