Recently there was a discussion on the managing community led projects mailing list about whether an RSS feed of the mailing list should be added to the OSS Watch planet. A number of issues came out of this that drove home to me:
- People have access information in very different ways (don’t assume how readers are going to access your content)
- People subscribe to an information source for a particular set of reasons, and if source changes and no longer interests them (or they no longer have time to consume the source), they unsubscribe (be consistent)
- Information sources have different capabilities for reuse and repurposing (don’t assume that content on third party systems is readily repurposable)
- People like to see information exactly once (don’t SPAM people)
My original suggestion, went down in flames, but I learnt from it.
I’ve just heard that the next upgrade of JISCMail “before Christmas this year” will have better RSS support.
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