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But it also increases load on small yet popular sources. On the other hand proxies, conditional request headers and HTTP 304 make for a great yet simple distrib
by eecc 7y ago
But it also increases load on small yet popular sources. On the other hand proxies, conditional request headers and HTTP 304 make for a great yet simple distributed caching infrastructure.
Of course if you’re thinking in terms of “broadcast internet” with a Facebook at its center you may be correct
- zaarn 7y agoMail is also push based, seems to work fine without a caching infrastructure.
- ohithereyou 7y agoWhat do you think an MTA, MDA, and mail stores are?
- zaarn 7y agoThey're not really caches, they're storage infrastructure. There is still a difference between cache and what's on hard disk.
- kickscondor 7y agoMmmm, RSS over e-mail. Is it bad that I want this?
- csande17 7y agoIsn't that just a mailing list?
- kickscondor 7y agoI guess I need to clarify. I don't want email summaries of blogs - that would be awful. I want websites to offer the ability to send raw RSS feeds over email as a push service. So basically WebSub but you don't need to run a WebSub server - you could just parse feeds using, for example, a procmail script. Email is already a well-supported protocol; WebSub is not.
- tuacker 7y agoCheck out https://rssmailer.app https://rssmailer.app
- shakna 7y agoThere's quite a few services that will convert new items into emails for you (IFTTT, and others). A lot of email clients also have support inbuilt. (Thunderbird, Outlook, and others).
- jaster 7y agoI have been using https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email with a dedicated email address for several years now, tracking around a hundred RSS feeds. The system works quite well, and I can read my RSS both via a client-side app (thunderbird in my case) and on the go via the webmail. I even made a small modification to rss2email to automatically "tag" the mails so I can use mail filters to automatically sorts the feeds into different folders. I have a server that fetches the RSS content a few times a day, but I guess it could also work "locally", for example by doing it once each time I turn on my computer (if you are okay with "missing out" sometimes on very active feeds). I decided to do the switch when I noted that the interfaces of my email client and of my RSS reader were basically indistinguishable. EDIT: for the anecdote, this project was initially created by the very same Aaron Swartz that, among other things, contributed to the creation of the RSS format http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148 http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148
- Ruthalas 7y agoTo add to the other suggestions, 'blogtrottr' is a convenient free service for receiving RSS as email, with settings for frequency and so on.
- CaptainMarvel 7y agoIt would surely be less load than each of those push-destinations attempting to pull the source multiple times to query for updates