Another Crazy Idea

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:25 pm

How about this, put Dale's monthly newsletter and other announcements in RSS format.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:33 pm

Might make it harder to email to folks. Do many email readers grok XML?

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:53 pm

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:57 pm

XML - Extended Markup Language - originally an extension of HyperText Markup Language (HTML), it now looks like it will supplant most of the original Java, Javascript and HTML on web pages.

Grok - Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land - Martian-speak for knowing something completely inside and out, its form, essence, and existence on all planes in all dimensions.

djm

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:09 pm

Lambchop wrote:Huh?

Also, RSS is a format that many news sites and blogs use to allow
users to be updated with new material as it happens. Users can use
a program that monitors the sites a user wants, and automagically
displaying new headlines. Or you could use RSS to make the
newsletter look like <a href="http://slashdot.org">slashdot.org</a> (a very popular geek/technology
news site), where each headline can be commented upon ad
nauseum.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:05 pm

djm wrote:Grok - Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land - Martian-speak for knowing something completely inside and out, its form, essence, and existence on all planes in all dimensions.

Well, that doesn't quite cover the whole of it, but it is a difficult word to grok, so I suppose that's about as close as human language can get.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:34 pm

Does this RSS work well with dial-up access?

Broke Internet users want to know.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:40 pm

Congratulations wrote:
djm wrote:Grok - Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land - Martian-speak for knowing something completely inside and out, its form, essence, and existence on all planes in all dimensions.
Well, that doesn't quite cover the whole of it, but it is a difficult word to grok, so I suppose that's about as close as human language can get.

As Mike himself said: "Grok is drink".

Share water, bro's

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:44 pm

Charlene wrote:Does this RSS work well with dial-up access?

Broke Internet users want to know.

Yeh. It's a text-based technology not a bandwidth-eater like sound or video. Dial-up shouldn't be an issue.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:46 pm

buddhu wrote:
Charlene wrote:Does this RSS work well with dial-up access?

Broke Internet users want to know.
Yeh. It's a text-based technology not a bandwidth-eater like sound or video. Dial-up shouldn't be an issue.

Thank you. I've see the option on other sites. Now that I know it's not going to take forever to load, I'll have to try it sometime.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:17 pm

buddhu wrote:
Congratulations wrote:
djm wrote:Grok - Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land - Martian-speak for knowing something completely inside and out, its form, essence, and existence on all planes in all dimensions.
Well, that doesn't quite cover the whole of it, but it is a difficult word to grok, so I suppose that's about as close as human language can get.
As Mike himself said: "Grok is drink".

Share water, bro's

Valentine Michael Smith was my father. He made a tasty soup.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:24 pm

Oh, yeah? Why dontcha go take a flying 90 degree angle from all points into nowhere!

djm

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:35 pm

djm wrote:Oh, yeah? Why dontcha go take a flying 90 degree angle from all points into nowhere!

djm

Just don't forget to bring Friday, Minerva, Dora, Hilda, and the Good Witch with you. Leave Farnham behind- he'll just hang out in the Controversial forum with Lummox.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:34 pm

Browsers like Firefox handle RSS feeds, as soon as you log in the browser updates the RSS. It can show up in the link toolbar and you click on it and there is a list of the topics. BBC, Slashdot, Space.com and many other sites, including a large number of bloggers use it. The advantage of RSS is that you subscribe to it and is loaded by your browser and you don't have to go through a bunch of junk mail to find it.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:41 pm

fearfaoin wrote:
Lambchop wrote:Huh?
Also, RSS is a format that many news sites and blogs use to allow
users to be updated with new material as it happens. Users can use
a program that monitors the sites a user wants, and automagically
displaying new headlines. Or you could use RSS to make the
newsletter look like <a href="http://slashdot.org">slashdot.org</a> (a very popular geek/technology
news site), where each headline can be commented upon ad
nauseum.

I have no clue what you are talking about.

How can a FORMAT update me? And why would I want to be updated?

Or to comment upon headlines? HEADLINES?

This is worse than MarcusR's torrents. But I figured those out. Well, at least I figured out what they were.

The torrents have some purpose. Being updated by a format . . . I dunno.

Yeech. Geek cooties. I need to go swim.