/ "Bob Wyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | A major cause of duplicates in at least some of the existing | services is the fact that bloggers insist on engaging in the apparently | illogical and wasteful practice of publish multiple versions of their feeds | and thus duplicates of their entries or items.
Illogical and wasteful? I've been doing it for a while as a benefit to my readers. If you only care about DocBook, you can subscribe to http://norman.walsh.name/atom/docbook.xml If you only care about geocaching, you can subscribe to http://norman.walsh.name/atom/geocaching.xml If you want to see all the blather I write, you can subscribe to http://norman.walsh.name/atom/whatsnew.xml Perhaps I shouldn't have done this, and I suppose I could stop, but I have. I had hoped, not having considered the DOS potential, that using the same atom:id in each entry would allow duplicates to be suppressed. I'm disappointed to learn that I've been niave. | One thing that we could do in the short term to reduce the number of | duplicate feeds is to define metadata that would allow feed publishers to | describe the relationships between feeds and describe the content of | different feeds. If, when reading a feed, I could be informed that this feed | was a duplicate of another "preferred" feed, I could switch to the preferred | feed and stop reading the duplicate. I could use this knowledge to map | subscriptions to the duplicate feeds to their equivalents. This would be | wonderful in the transition from Atom .03 to Atom V1.0... (i.e. if the old | format feed could point to the newer version, we'd all eventually stop | reading the old format feed.) I'd be happy to generate this metadata. | If these link rel types are acceptable to people, we should probably | define equivelant syntax to be inserted into old Atom feeds to allow the | transition to the new atom as well as define extensions to the various | flavors of RSS. If we can implement this minor extension, we may see many | fewer duplicate feeds being consumed and thus fewer duplicate entries. | Comments? +1 Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | CNN is one of the participants in the http://nwalsh.com/ | war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner | is elected president but refuses | because he doesn't want to give up | power.--Arthur C. Clark
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