[consulting] Use of groups.drupal.org

[Dan Robinson]

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>
> On 5/15/06, *Gregory Heller* <gregory at civicactions.com
> <mailto:gregory at civicactions.com>> wrote:
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>     The only thing i see missing from the RSS is perhaps a group subject
>     prefix on the messages.  I subscirbed to all my groups, and now i
>     can't
>     easily tell which group a message is from.  Could message subjects be
>     prefixed with group name? or a short group name? like [New York]
>     for the
>     NY dug?
>
>
> No. This is not how RSS works -- we shouldn't be trying to duplicate
> email. And it actually breaks all sorts of other RSS tools -- the
> title should be the title of the source article, not pre-pended with
> extra information.
>
> We *might* want to inject a <category> or other element that includes
> the group name, but again, I doubt most peoples' feed reader does
> anything with that.
they might not - however this is jut the sort of semantic that RSS is
designed to support - so placing it there would be a good idea IMHO.
>
>     Or perhaps instead of giving me one combined feed, whne i subscribe to
>     my groups feed, i could be given an opml of all the individual rss
>     feeds?
>
>
> You do, of course, have the choice to subscribe to the feeds
> individually. The OPML aspect is interesting...maybe linked from the
> "my groups" block.
>
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