#84: add RSS feeds ------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: sumanah | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Beta version Version: | Keywords: ------------------------+-------------------------- Per [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf- interest/2003Feb/0047.html] -- add RSS feeds.

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I just stumbled across this after an #rdfig discussion about adding RSS support to Mailman, the popular list management and HTML archiving package. Turns out the patch exists already (but wasn't intergrated yet).

It took me less than 10 minutes to patch my Mailman installation and rebuild the archives for rdfweb-dev. I now have http://rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/rss.xml generated automatically.

See http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2003/02/09/2003-02-09.html#1044813421.381747 for the (trivial to apply) patch and related info. Just cd into the Mailman/Archiver/ directory and do 'patch < ~danbri/rss.patch' or whatever, then re-run bin/arch on your archives.

The markup exported is fairly basic, but sets things up nicely for future extensions -- you could add in richer descriptions of the mailing lists fairly easily, though I'm not sure how best one would hook such information up to Mailman's www-based frontend.

Dan }}}

It would be awesome to be able to subscribe to a specific list via RSS; after that, it would also be neat to be able to subscribe via RSS to all public lists on a domain, to mail from a specific user, or to mail to a list on a specific "topic"/thread.

I'm taking this idea from http://wiki.mailman.psf.io/DEV/Mailman%203.0?action=diff&rev2=30&rev... -- a TODO/wishlist for the Mailman 3.x series.