Tim Connors writes:
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, Jason White wrote:
Trent W. Buck wrote:
While doubtless useless to you, I feel compelled to mention that gwene.org, which translates RSS/Atom's idiotic design into a newsgroup,
That's a very good idea - let's just convert ATOM/RSS feeds to NNTP.
There is a proliferation of protocols: SMTP, NNTP, RSS/ATOM, XMPP, IRC, etc., in addition to Web APIs for various services that all perform similar but slightly different functions. I sometimes wonder whether we'll see more consolidation of such protocols in the future.
Bwuhahaha. Seriously? http://xkcd.com/927/ (and you think this 15th protocol will be superior to any of the previous attempts?)
Ahem. I was advocating throwing away fancy-pants new protocols and using an existing one, not creating a new one. AFAICT Jason wasn't advocating a new protocol either, but maybe I'm just projecting.