RE: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff

["David Galbraith" <david@moreover.com>]

The original location being pointed to for the full content should by
default be the source. If this is full text content syndicated to a third
party location then the source becomes 'AP via blah.com' or whatever (this
will never become recursive).
Aggregating from an aggregator is not a problem. If I create a collection
(aggregation) of headlines the collection that lists the aggregator, at the
channel level, not at the item level.

DG

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: zac [mailto:zac@pixelgeek.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 10:42 AM
> To: syndication@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff
>
>
> David Galbraith wrote:
>
> > The problem with aggregating using RSS at the moment is that if you pull
> > together a list of related items from different sources then
> the aggregator
> > appears to be the source.
>
> This is a very valid criticism but the only problem I can see with a
> <source> or <source_link> tag is that it a) adds another required
> tag to the
> format (if its optional it won't be used or used infrequently)
> and b) adds
> another level of data that the source providers need to enter and track.
>
> And there is a problem with who the actual source is. If I point to an
> article on another sit that points to another article on a further site
> (perhaps because of the first site's trenchant commentary on the original
> article) then what is the ultimate source?
>
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