Re: RSS vs. NNTP

Steven E. Harris wrote: 
The Usenet Big 8 most certainly is.  The mechanism may be
distributed, but the view is highly centralized.


The DNS top-level domains are centralized too.  So what?


True. But even beyond Gmane, it's possible for specific news servers
to host small sets of groups, even if other servers don't propagate
those groups. I concede that the overhead in getting one's writing
onto a news server is much higher than sticking Web pages and
attendant RSS files on a Web server, or pouring one's heart into some
Roach Motel system like Blogger or LiveJournal.

Overhead? Well, opening Thunderbird and just clicking reply or new-message is certainly easier than directing my browser to a specific bookmark, logging in (if I'm not already), clicking reply, and submitting text. Every of these "context switches" causes another HTML page to load, which might take time, too. I certainly prefer *real* applications that prefer some kind of protocol to web interfaces, especially if those web interfaces make a horizontal scrollbar appear in my browser window (like those stupid, ugly, vastly popular 3-column-layouts).

By all means, show us these web browsers that package up exactly the
same functionality of scouring the web for content of interest.



I was referring to features in older versions of Internet Explorer
(and perhaps Netscape) around 1997 that allowed one to designate
certain bookmarks as "live" or something. The browser would keep track
of the last update time for the resources pointed to by these
bookmarks. Based on some periodicity or upon explicit command, the
browser would poll for each bookmark to see if the respective resource
had been updated. If so, the browser would highlight the bookmark and
perhaps download the resource, caching it for later viewing.

And its sequel Mozilla. Open a bookmark's properties dialog. I have never used anything there, but I remember seeing all kinds of options there...

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