Re: [syndication] blogs and syndication

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <034b01c13a22$8b36d490$b10f000a@Bali>, paul nakada
<paulnakada@yahoo.com> writes
>I feel like this falls into the category of, "it's better to allow in the
>few exceptional bad cases, than to restrict too much"
>
>Allowing rich text into RSS type feeds is a very powerful concept.  If
>people want to publish poorly conceived feeds, I say let them and let the
>customers of those feeds speak with their traffic.
>
>I for one unsubscribe to poorly formatted or syndicated feeds.  I speak with
>my eyeballs.  Seems the most powerful statement i can make.

I'm not suggesting we should restrict. I'm not suggesting that the spec
needs changing. I like rich html in the description element; I can
always strip tags I don't like. I can and do unsub from feeds that are
unusable, but how will the owner ever know. And there is a problem with
a lack of agreement as to how to use rss for blogs. And I'm not
suggesting that rss should necessarily drive blog software design (by
forcing a title for every item, say).

But I want to read these sites. It's their rss technology which is
broken, or non existent, not the content.

So, what to do?

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