On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, Jason White wrote:
Trent W. Buck <twb@cyber.com.au> wrote:
While doubtless useless to you, I feel compelled to mention that gwene.org, which translates RSS/Atom's idiotic design into a newsgroup, so you can read it with a real newsreader (like gnus). gwene groups are also carried by gmane.org, which does the same thing for mailing lists, like this one.
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/ (for the visually impaired, you may still be able to read the display: none text transcript in that comic) (and you think this 15th protocol will be superior to any of the previous attempts?) -- Tim Connors