[FLPERMACULTURE] Set up an RSS feed for this list

[Myra Sabir]

Thanks!

At 03:44 PM 2/12/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>[Myra Sabir <mgs16 at cornell.edu>:]
>
> > what's an RSS feed?
>
>This link will tell you more than you probably wanted to know:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29
>
>Let's suppose there's a blog that you like to read, but you don't
>want to check it every five minutes to see whether there's
>something new.  If the blog supports RSS (or Atom, which performs
>a similar function), then you can "subscribe" to its "RSS (or
>Atom) feed" and then (if you have a suitable piece of software
>installed as a plug-in to your web browser), you can be informed
>whenever something new appears on the blog.  This can be a big
>timesaver in the case of blogs that don't get updated every day.
>
>Why anyone would want an RSS feed from a mail list is a mystery to
>me, though.  If you wanted to know whenever someone added a piece
>of mail, you could just subscribe to the mail list (or set the
>mail list to digest mode, which can be very handy in the case of
>lists that get a lot of traffic).  So I don't understand the
>advantage of getting an RSS notification instead of the mail
>itself.  Maybe Michael B. can explain this.
>
>Jon
>
>
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Myra Sabir, PhD
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