Re: [syndication] RSS Clients

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

David Carter-Tod already has this service. Why didn't I think of it earlier.
Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian@netmarketseurope.com>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS Clients


> In article <200105172145.OAA07878@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>, Eric
> Bohlman <ebohlman@earthlink.net> writes
> >But if everyone who hit Slashdot also
> >had to hit the RSS
> >feed, the site with the feed would be getting hit hard.  The problem
wouldn't
> >so
> >much be bandwidth;
> >RSS files are usually short; it would be the sheer number of HTTP
connections.
>
> I guess this is where some of Moreover's money went... Have you noticed
> how many people have Moreover feeds on their web pages? Clearly serving
> all that can be done, but you have to put a lot of effort into it.
>
> Using server side code to get the feed in a polite way is not hard as
> long as you have some server scripting ability. But an awful lot of
> websites don't.
>
> I started his thread with "I've been thinking about the need for more
> clients for RSS." Maybe there's some other ideas out there. What I
> really want is a "Daily Me", but I haven't seen it yet.
>
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