-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Paul Vixie Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:59 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: NANOG via RSS

rs@seastrom.com (Robert E.Seastrom) writes:

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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.

Merit could treat the mailing list as an asset and not allow redistribution and instead offer multiple formats for readers to "peruse" or "react in near real time". RSS, NNTP, and SMTP are all options in my mind. It's about choices. More is better. -M<