Re: Caching/distribution model

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

David Carter-Tod <wccartd@wc.cc.va.us> wrote:

> My point is that currentStories.xml is a kind of first level aggregator
> that any site with multiple RSS feeds could use to indicate which feeds
> have new stories.  Any aggregator should go to such a file and use that to
> only grab what's new.

This is very interesting -- perhaps this could be combined with a server
that collected RSS feeds and sent the full content of those that had changed
since a certain date. This might fit into an RSS project I'm working on.

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