Well, not too surprisingly, the same person who submitted them in the first place (see the Action Logs on the feeds).
The couple that I checked passed validation, and each entry does appear to lead to different content -- and while that content is clearly designed to encourage purchasing a site membership, there is also unique-per-item content available without any purchase. The content itself may be distasteful to some, but we're not supposed to impose editorial control, just technical -- unless it's spam. So the questions are, are the feeds technically sound or not, and are they spam or not? A quick check (without perusing the XML directly) suggests they are at least technically sound. So are they spam? Unfortunately, that's a gray area -- not every feed that is commercial in nature should be considered spam, or we would have to reject a huge chunk of the database and lose some high-quality feeds in the process (especially considering the broad range of things that can be considered "commercial"). I've certainly seen feeds that -- despite having less potentially-offensive content -- looked more like spam than this set. Those are the ones where each feed item actually goes to the same content, which isn't even content but just keyword-generated garbage along with Google AdSense-type ads. I would consider these feeds to be borderline -- essentially, that somebody could successfully argue that they're valid feeds. (Of course, my opinion on that would change if there's ever duplicate content linked to different feed items, or if the content never changes and there are never any more items in the feed.) When I see something like this prominently appearing on the home page of the site, I will usually spend a few minutes finding good feeds to approve in sufficient quantity to scroll off the ones I consider questionable. (The craigslist feeds are usually rich ground for this purpose.) -- Stuart Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.just-stuart.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
