Re: [syndication] shared feed lists

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> > Tim Bray is certainly an eloquent person, but he has no clue if we'll be
> > using the Web in 3000, nor will he ever find out. When I moved in March I
> > threw out four dumpsters worth of history, there were a bunch of disks
> > formatted for CP/M in the pile of stuff I threw out. People said things like
> > that about CP/M too. And the Apple II. Forget it, they're trash now, no one
> > cares what they called their special files and any time spent arguing over
> > what they were called was time wasted. And that's something none of us have
> > very much of, btw.
> >
> > These things look precious and we'd like to think they live forever, but
> > they don't. We can argue about this ad infinitum, and then all we get is an
> > argument and no new software. Hey if I followed your advice, how would I
> > know where to look for the <link> element? Doesn't index.html clog up the
> > namespace? Aren't you blindly looking for something wasteful? Hehe. You end
> > up chasing your tail Jeff.

Why insult Tim and Jeff here?  Tim's arguably demonstrated a good sense of long
term vision.  Likewise Jeff is undoubtedly one of the most experienced people
when it comes to resource waste and it's burdens as it related to syndication.
Yet you seek to dismiss them.  How does that help?

Your quaint stories about Apple ][ and CP/M and how it impacted your moving are
hardly relative to the discussion being had.  Please try to stay on topic and
not cloud it with uselessly unrelated folksy storytelling.

The link element has been part of the HTML spec since nearly the beginning.  If
you're not aware of it by now then that certainly explains this half-baked
idea....

-Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com