hi ruedi
What do you think of reading this mailing list as RSS feed? Good/bad idea?
bad.
how do you answer to posts? ,-) for me RSS is not a solution for participating in a mailinglist. if you want to have read only access, it may be an alternative... so you still need the mails ;-)
I personally would very much favour this approach for the following reasons:
- My inbox remains emptier/smaller
<ironic> yes, you're right, we've got about 654'465'108 mails a year on this mailinglist ;-) makes sense ,-) </ironic>
- No problems with auto replys which flood the whole list
well, as i said: mail will remain, so auto reply's will remain ...
- Only headers get downloaded automatically. This saves bandwidth.
i dont know, but i think bandwidth is not really a problem with that mailinglist, right? we're not (yet) at nanog's size ,)
So, dear administrator, why not give it a try? Google, for example, recommends this software on the server side: http://jmason.org/software/scripts/mailman-archive-to-rss.txt
i think you're gladly invited to provide an RSS feed for those people which cannot live without it ;-)
cheers
-steven