Comments on: From Mailing Lists To RSS http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss grep understanding Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven G. Harms http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss/comment-page-1#comment-30808 Steven G. Harms Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:23:54 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1163#comment-30808 <p>This is a real challenge at my employer as well, well, say times 50K.</p> <p>When you have the enrenched costs of mail storange and the entrenched culture of mailing lists, you find that people are pulling a ton of chaff AND consuming tons of space. RSS and blogs ( back to RSS ) are mentioned as the solution to it, but I don't think anyone has constructed a solid model for collaboration feeds ( except MS, whose sharepoint product seems solid, feature wise ).</p> <p>The Open Source offerings aren't even in the park.</p> <p>Steven</p> This is a real challenge at my employer as well, well, say times 50K.

When you have the enrenched costs of mail storange and the entrenched culture of mailing lists, you find that people are pulling a ton of chaff AND consuming tons of space. RSS and blogs ( back to RSS ) are mentioned as the solution to it, but I don’t think anyone has constructed a solid model for collaboration feeds ( except MS, whose sharepoint product seems solid, feature wise ).

The Open Source offerings aren’t even in the park.

Steven

]]> By: Steven G. Harms http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss/comment-page-1#comment-247045 Steven G. Harms Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:23:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1163#comment-247045 <p>This is a real challenge at my employer as well, well, say times 50K.</p> <p>When you have the enrenched costs of mail storange and the entrenched culture of mailing lists, you find that people are pulling a ton of chaff AND consuming tons of space. RSS and blogs ( back to RSS ) are mentioned as the solution to it, but I don't think anyone has constructed a solid model for collaboration feeds ( except MS, whose sharepoint product seems solid, feature wise ).</p> <p>The Open Source offerings aren't even in the park.</p> <p>Steven</p> This is a real challenge at my employer as well, well, say times 50K.

When you have the enrenched costs of mail storange and the entrenched culture of mailing lists, you find that people are pulling a ton of chaff AND consuming tons of space. RSS and blogs ( back to RSS ) are mentioned as the solution to it, but I don’t think anyone has constructed a solid model for collaboration feeds ( except MS, whose sharepoint product seems solid, feature wise ).

The Open Source offerings aren’t even in the park.

Steven

]]> By: Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss/comment-page-1#comment-30771 Daniel Miessler Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:55:40 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1163#comment-30771 <p>Interesting, thanks for the input. Nice site, btw.</p> Interesting, thanks for the input. Nice site, btw.

]]> By: Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss/comment-page-1#comment-247044 Daniel Miessler Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:55:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1163#comment-247044 <p>Interesting, thanks for the input. Nice site, btw.</p> Interesting, thanks for the input. Nice site, btw.

]]> By: cji http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss/comment-page-1#comment-30767 cji Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:40:06 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1163#comment-30767 <p>This has worked pretty well for me over the past few months. I had started just getting the digest version to help slow down the massive inbox traffic those lists generate, but found that was even more difficult to navigate.</p> <p>The good thing about using the RSS feeds, is you can easily get rid of or ignore the noise and just pick out the good signal (for the most part). The bad part obviously,depending on your client, is that you might only see the last 10-20 posts but have missed something important from earlier, depending on how often you're checking the feeds.</p> <p>Anyway, good luck with it. I've found it's infinitely more useful than having a second gmail account setup just for mailing lists (which I forget to check and suddenly have 3,000 new messages to sift through).</p> This has worked pretty well for me over the past few months. I had started just getting the digest version to help slow down the massive inbox traffic those lists generate, but found that was even more difficult to navigate.

The good thing about using the RSS feeds, is you can easily get rid of or ignore the noise and just pick out the good signal (for the most part). The bad part obviously,depending on your client, is that you might only see the last 10-20 posts but have missed something important from earlier, depending on how often you’re checking the feeds.

Anyway, good luck with it. I’ve found it’s infinitely more useful than having a second gmail account setup just for mailing lists (which I forget to check and suddenly have 3,000 new messages to sift through).

]]> By: cji http://danielmiessler.com/blog/from-mailing-lists-to-rss/comment-page-1#comment-247043 cji Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:40:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1163#comment-247043 <p>This has worked pretty well for me over the past few months. I had started just getting the digest version to help slow down the massive inbox traffic those lists generate, but found that was even more difficult to navigate.</p> <p>The good thing about using the RSS feeds, is you can easily get rid of or ignore the noise and just pick out the good signal (for the most part). The bad part obviously,depending on your client, is that you might only see the last 10-20 posts but have missed something important from earlier, depending on how often you're checking the feeds.</p> <p>Anyway, good luck with it. I've found it's infinitely more useful than having a second gmail account setup just for mailing lists (which I forget to check and suddenly have 3,000 new messages to sift through).</p> This has worked pretty well for me over the past few months. I had started just getting the digest version to help slow down the massive inbox traffic those lists generate, but found that was even more difficult to navigate.

The good thing about using the RSS feeds, is you can easily get rid of or ignore the noise and just pick out the good signal (for the most part). The bad part obviously,depending on your client, is that you might only see the last 10-20 posts but have missed something important from earlier, depending on how often you’re checking the feeds.

Anyway, good luck with it. I’ve found it’s infinitely more useful than having a second gmail account setup just for mailing lists (which I forget to check and suddenly have 3,000 new messages to sift through).

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