Re: RSS on Mail-Archive

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:28:58PM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> 
> >We've been using mail-archive RSS for quite a while at fastbuzz.com.
> >There are currently 62 mail-archive mailing lists subscribed from
> >fastbuzz.
> 
> Glad to hear that's working for you. The difference is we now have
> "RSS" feeds joining the existing "RDF" feeds. The two feeds are doing
> essentially the same thing so this really shouldn't affect fastbuzz.

Oh, OK. I sometimes forget the difference between an RDF feed and an RSS
feeds since we support RSS, RDF and now atom. Now I get why you said
that this is new stuff.


Dror

> 
> Another change made recently is silent dropping of inbound email
> containing attachements like .pif .exe and other "virusy" file
> extensions. Yes, unfortunately .zip is now on the list. This is in
> response to the explosion of viruses on the internet, especially the
> MyDoom variants. The goal of Mail-Archive isn't really to store
> zillions of virus emails, and bouncing these guys just adds noise to
> the internet. 
> 
> We've also switched to dropping rather than bouncing emails larger
> than the cutoff size. Shouldn't make a huge difference, but speak up
> if this affects you. This change is due to technical mailing lists;
> once in a while someone will send a giant patch and then the bounces
> start causing subscription problems. It is my hope that this change
> will allow some of the open source programming lists to come back into
> the fold.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> 
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