By any chance is this list available via xml/rss?
Thanks,
Mike
"Mike Callahan" <mcallahan@bullseyetelecom.net> writes:
By any chance is this list available via xml/rss?
There are several email to rss gateway software packages out there; it
would be trivial to roll your own.
YMMV, but after reading a couple of other mailing lists that were
gatewayed to rss, my sense is that RSS is not the right technology for
reading NANOG unless one were to create a "first article only" feed.
Due to different ways of looking at data than one would usually think
of when designing a mail or usenet reader, all RSS readers of my
admittedly fairly narrow acquaintance are lacking in one critical
(imnsho) feature for reading NANOG-L: "kill thread".
---Rob
Mike Callahan <mcallahan@bullseyetelecom.net> writes:
By any chance is this list available via xml/rss?
Thanks,
Mike
You can get it via blog and rss format from here -
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog?set_skin=zawodny
-srs
This is a much better way than RSS -
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog?set_skin=zawodny
I am actually wonder if RSS has an advantage at all compared to a
mailinglist, especially as RSS is a pull mechanism, if there is nothing
or not a lot happening it will be polling the server a lot of times
needlessy, thus causing server resources. While of course a mailinglist
has the overhead of the email headers. But I am quite convinced of the
idea that a push * 25.000 subscribers is lighter load on the server than
having a continues pull by those 25.000 subscribers...
Next to that, my mailbox simply shows the articles I have not read and I
throw out what I did read and can easily reply to what I like to reply
to. Personally thus RSS has not much value, just like NNTP actually,
even though NNTP comes quite close to email.
Greets,
Jeroen
Try pointing your subscription to Gmail. Plenty of space to hold a
nice archive. Quickly Searchable, accessible from anywhere, automatic
threading. Make a label and matching filter for each
mailing-list...make's thing nice and sorted automatically. Your Gmail
acc't can be accessed via rss too, so there's that.
--chip
Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....
<SNIP>
Try pointing your subscription to Gmail.
Why the peep would I want to rely on a service provider like Gmail or
Hotmail or whatever for something as as important as my email ?
I also like to use my own domain for sending mail, it will never change
unless I go bankrupt or the internet disappears completely.
Especially folks in the ISP business should be able to pretty easily
setup much more sophisticated systems without having to rely on a third
party at all. You can then pick any combination of tools you want to use
to process it ranging from a Windows95 box to a superduper Earth
Simulator, just depending on the size of your pocket (and the money that
will not be in it afterwards) and your own capabilities.
Do you have any idea how much mail you can store on your local
NetApp ? 
Plenty of space to hold a
nice archive. Quickly Searchable, accessible from anywhere, automatic
threading. Make a label and matching filter for each
mailing-list...make's thing nice and sorted automatically.
People call this procmail and their other favourite tool of choice 
Your Gmail acc't can be accessed via rss too, so there's that.
If you didn't notice from my message I don't see the need for RSS at all
because it is not at all useful for many things, especially as email
gateways.
Greets,
Jeroen
PS: Another nice feature of your own mail system is that you can
actually configure your real name completely and nicely capitalized in
the from address
rs@seastrom.com (Robert E.Seastrom) writes:
> By any chance is this list available via xml/rss?
...
Due to different ways of looking at data than one would usually think
of when designing a mail or usenet reader, all RSS readers of my
admittedly fairly narrow acquaintance are lacking in one critical
(imnsho) feature for reading NANOG-L: "kill thread".
we gateway nanog@ (it's not called NANOG-L, really, plz stop saying that)
into a local usenet newsgroup here. the netnews feature i use most often
isn't actually "kill by thread", but rather "kill by author". i can't
imagine how any of you read this forum using a normal e-mail tool.
Jeroen,
I agree with you on pretty much everything you said. The only thing
I use this gmail account for is mailing lists. I don't want to
clutter up my inbox with all the stuff that happens on 10 different
lists. I also don't want to have to deal with the spamming issues
that are a result of the lists. And why should I pay for space,
equipment, and time when someone's giving me 1Gb for free with all the
handy tools already installed. Anyhow, to each his own, was just
pointing out another option.
-- chip
Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....
With some difficulty...
i can't imagine how any of you read this forum using a normal e-mail tool.
I've used Outlook 2003 since Beta, and couldn't imagine not using it for
emailing. Just setup a rule to send NANOG emails to their own folder and
let 'em roll in. I'll browse every so often and decide I don't care about a
topic and just mark that day's emails as read.
Plus my phone/pda can sync across the Sprint network with Exchange and
download the most recent emails when I get bored on the train or at lunch.
Joe Johnson