From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-11-14T01:57:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] RSS: Howto get started?

Quoteing sera@fhwang.net, on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:14:37PM +0900:
> 
> On Nov 13, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> >
> >Well... I didn't really like Gush all that much, so I just uninstalled 
> >it.
> >My favorite reader for Windows is still RSS Bandit
> >(http://www.rssbandit.org/).
> >
> >Curt
> 
> I tried out Gush (for OS X, I think it's mostly the same thing) and 
> didn't like it either. Its polling model is quite interesting, though: 
> It opens a Jabber connection to the PubSub server so it receives 
> updates from PubSub instead of asking for them periodically. Bob Wyman 
> (PubSub CTO, also I know him since he sits on the board of the 
> non-profit I work at) writes about this issue quite a lot on his own 
> blog. POP clients get updates every few minutes, and we should be able 
> to get the same update rate with feeds like RSS and Atom.

Yeah, but pop clients do it by polling. Theres not difference between
that and polling for RSS with http.

Sam