Re: Leveraging weblogging, Trackback, XML/RPC

* 2004-04-14 James Craig Burley:

>* Steve Dodd:
>>There's a system built on top of XML/RPC (or SOAP, can't remember which,
>>and not an expert in these things) called "Trackback", which is used at
>>the moment for notifying a web server that someone has linked / commented
>>on a blog entry. Could this be leveraged to provide notifications for an
>>IM2000 style system?  <http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/>
>
> But maybe the blog community takes broken links fully in stride, treating
> them as "oh well, guess so-and-so didn't think what he had to say was
> important enough to leave posted for this long", if even considered to
> that extent?

i'm a supporter of im2k getting negotiation features for various reasons.
your estimate of some users interpretation of a broken link should be a
configurable behaviour.

i also believe it should well be possible to have SMTP and IM2000 to
coexist.  think of anonymous POP/IMAP servers to offer mailinglist traffic
(no special subscription neccessary for read-only access) and leave it at
that until the IM2000 specification has matured.

  clemens