[arachne] Re: RSS?

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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:37:23 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:

> Can't you subscribe to RSS feeds?

Yes, I can. But to no effect that I can see.

> And don't they update themselves automagically so you don't
> have to go get them?

Not that I've noticed.

But then I don't have any software that runs "automagically"
when I'm not watching it.

> The evolution of the internet has been mostly to think up new and
> more complicated ways of doing the same old thing, but with more
> control and limitation from the server, so that you are forced to
> see things their way.

With more and more things that the user neither understands nor has
control over, which makes the user's system more and more susceptible
to invasion....


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