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Hi Kelly, (...) As said earlier by mail, I think that this is the most important thing to have implemented in a "LEGO community related" newssystem. Since I got no replies after I mentioned it in the globalAFOL group, I thought the participated (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | RSS vs. Atom (was: Attention All RSS Geeks)
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Time to break this into a subthread, I think... RSS v. Atom - Pro and Con Time So now that I've spent the last few hours reading the (URL) history>[1] of RSS v2.0 and what's become Atom (although the Homer Simpson in me liked its previous name, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Well, as long as the content you're feeding it is pure ascii. For instance, getting LUGNET posts to be valid RSS was not as easy as I thought it would be. Making one for 1000stein would be even harder. Dealing with charsets, embedded images (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Same here. Good point about spec changes, Jake. I'd love to do a pro/con list of RSS/Atom, but I don't know enough yet, so I guess I'll have to research that some more. My main concern is using something that can be used by the maximum number (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I think you're right, at least in theory, that Atom is the better standard, simply because it's being designed from day one to be what it is meant to be. (Whereas the RSS format has sorta bounced around from concept to concept, then was (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) AFAIK, yes - most CMSs, and almost all aggregators do support atom. (...) I don't think there's much of a difference between emitting Atom or RSS/LENNI, but I don't have that strong a preference. If everyone else is dead against Atom, I'll go (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Exxxxxccccccelent (in best Monty Burns voice) (...) That's exactly right - leverage the tools out there, build on them, but don't require them. If, say, there are 100 LEGO-related RSS feeds available, and 25 of them are LENNI-enhanced, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I've just looked over some of the Atom docs, but it seems very similar to RSS to me, only much newer. Is Atom supported by many current blog or web publishing software? My thoughts were that straight RSS feeds would work within the LENNI (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I've become convinced that Atom might be a better solution. If only because it has better mechanisms to ensure that entries are identified uniquely, and support for meta information about authors, etc. (...) If we're using RSS, using a custom (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.org)
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(...) Sounds like a great project Kelly! I'm on board to help out! Bill, I think that the idea is that the base of this extended RSS format would be RSS "standard friendly", and that the extensions would simply be ignored by RSS readers/aggregators. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish)
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