Re: reading the cfd-online-forum with Gnus

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hello,

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> On  9 jun 2004, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>
>> I don't know to much about RSS feeds, but somehow I have to
>> sell him the idea to offer RSS feeds for the readers. So what
>> advantages does the website manager have when he offers a RSS
>> feed? Is it just that Gnus-Reader can take a nice look at his
>> page? Is it hard and time consuming to implement?
>
> This is absolutely not time consuming according to my knowledge,
> this can be done in less time that is took to tell :)
>
> For the advantage, I will take my experience. I find it less
> intrusive not to have to shoot a huge program to check if there
> is anyting interesting to read about.
>
> RSS is primarily to syndicate site between them. So offering a
> RSS or RDF feed gives the opportunity to others to present part
> of a site on another site. AFAIK, it is the primary goal at
> RSS/RDF syndication.
>
> There are plenty of advantages to offer a RSS to their readers.
>

Thanks! I just mailed to the Webmaster. I'll tell you about it.

Greetings!
-- 
Fabian Braennstroem
Berlin / Duesseldorf