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2008-12-22 , 16:43
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
If you have IMAP, it is synced. PIM (or equiv), sync is important. Bookmarks? OK, point there, but back in the days Netscape had LDAP support for this purpose. IMO this is important for RSS as well. You can have the same RSS feed on several devices, but what kind of use is it to know that some are unread when this isn't synchronized between devices? This is not a NIT problem, just a generic problem.
The obvious solution: you have a server get all the RSS feeds, perform any filtering required, and redistribute them to clients with some protocol. And there's no standard for that protocol yet...

My suggestion: AFAICS, IMAP is quite suitable as the redistribution protocol. Obviously, a good email program is not necessarily a good feed-reader, but the protocol can be the same, and mail-centric clients will still work in a pinch. Thoughts? (Am I missing something this protocol needs that IMAP doesn't support?)
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