Re. RSS, actually these have been available for a while now. If you look at the list home page http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com you will see RSS buttons and links down at the bottom right.
Frank Norman
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:31 pm
Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Is pscicom list a dinosaur?
> I would say that it is a generation thing, but I know that this
> list has
> some younger persons aboard.
>
> I belong to a lot of lists, but rarely play in the Facebook world,
> which I
> consider to be suitable for the terminally trivial.
>
> I am a regular on various forums, but I often use email to keep
> track of
> those.
>
> Blogs are completely different.
>
> The one thing that this list misses, but that others manage, is an
> RSS feed.
>
> This is the delivery mechanism that unites blogs, social networks and
> forums.
>
> I am surprised that jiscmail has not implemented RSS feeds on its
> lists.
> ____________________________
> Michael Kenward
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>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kaplish, Lalita
> > Sent: 29 November 2008 15:54
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [PSCI-COM] Is pscicom list a dinosaur?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > In a recent converstion with me, a new young science writer
> expressed> surprise that this mailing list was still so active. The
> idea
> > of mailing
> > lists seemed old-fashioned to him, given the rise of forums and
> blogs> etc. So I wondered what other people on the list thought. Is
> our list
> > coming to an evolutionary dead end? Have mailing lists had their
> day?> Has the younger/more foreward looking science communication
> community> migrated to other watering holes in the virtual world?
> If you are
> > talking/sharing science communication or PUS issues elsewhere, I'd
> > really like to hear about it.
> >
> > Lalita
> >
> > Lalita Kaplish
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