* David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> [2010-04-09 14:15]: > Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this > wonderful feature.
I fail to understand why people bake this sort of feature (some way to penalize "inactive" feeds) into aggregation software. Isn't *the whole point* of feeds that I can continue to listen for updates on infrequently updated things, without spending all my time checking bookmarks to infrequently changing web pages? I am subscribed to a lot of weblogs that go silent for very long periods between updates: some of them update literally once every year and a half. These updates tend to be much more important to me than the fire-and-forget firehose of chaff that descends upon me from so many other feeds. But somehow the writers of aggregation software tend to have the idea that the former way of using feeds is somehow wrong. I just don't get it. (I've ranted about this from the writer's perspective as well: http://plasmasturm.org/log/339/ ) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
