Re: A proposal about feedback means

I agree, these are all great ideas. These should be done in a module 
(namespace extension) to avoid stomping on existing implementations. 
Any volunteers. Lack there of and it'll go on my ever growing list of 
things to do.
Thanks,

Randy

--- In [email protected], "Serj I" <serjrds@...> wrote:
>
> Hi group!
> 
> I thought it can be very suitable for some RSS authors, webmasters 
or
> other stuff to recieve any feedback not as emails but as instant
> messages. I also thought that may be someone would like his users to
> send feedback via some other means. So I suggest you to add 'type' 
and
> 'subtype' attributes to all elements that are currently used to hold
> e-mails (managingEditor, webMaster, and author). The type attribute
> will indicate a basic type of a communication means and have a 
default
> value of 'email' and some other non-default values: id (instant
> messaging system ID), fax, phone... may be more. The subtype 
attribute
> will be optional or required depending on the value of the 'type'
> attribute. For type="id" subtype is required and can have these
> possible values: msn, yahoo, icq, aim etc. For type="email" subtype 
is
> ignored and subtypes for other types can be defined in future.
> 
> I also suggest to use several elements like managingEditor to 
indicate
> different email addresses or an email address and an ID and so on.
> These addresses may belong to the same person or may not. This 
syntax
> can be used to decrease feed size: the first such element can 
contain
> an address and a real name in parentheses and all subsequent ones,
> representing the same person - just addresses and so on. Aggregators
> could display real names found in a feed together with drop down 
lists
> containing corresponding addresses. RSS specification doesnt clarify
> are multiple managingEditor and similar elements allowed or not but 
as
> far as I know modern RSS aggregators dont allow them.
> 
> So this is all I wanted to suggest. Will be waiting for your 
comments.
> 
> Serj I
>




 
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