RE: [syndication] grepping for "announce" messages would make a g ood RSS feed.

[dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil]

>I have been thinking about this for a while.  It would seem that if someone
were
>to subscribe to a LOT of mailing lists and regexp for ^ANNOUNCE.* we could
make
>a really nice RSS feed.
>
>Does anyone know of an XML based mailing list archive?  Something which we
can
>make a protocol out of?  Covalent had one a while back but it looks as if
it is
>having disk problems.

Um, edumucate me here. Are you talking about generating a list of mailing
lists and making that list(s) available via RSS? Or are you talking about
storing the individual messages from each of those lists in RSS?

If the former, I'm sure this has already been done. Liszt.com used to do
this, but they seem gone now (can't load in my browser anyway).

For the latter, wouldn't the individual list's archives be better suited to
this task?

If something else entirely, I'm all ears.

Also something to keep in mind: What problem is this supposed to solve? If
not a problem, what compelling feature will it provide that will make
everyone want to use it?

I just think we spend a lot of time on these lists (syndication, rss-dev,
etc) coming up with gee-whiz ideas that have no practical use. I'm not
saying your's doesn't -- far from it, I'm more than willing to listen to new
ideas -- I just hate seeing folks spend time on idea after idea that just
fizzles because there's no real problem being addressed.

Just some thoughts pulled out of my asinine posterior...
-dave