RE: [syndication] Being kind to clients

["Content-Wire" <editor@content-wire.com>]

Julian
We are content providers and one of the formats we deliver is rss, other is
nitf , as you may have seen.

I can limit the number of items that appear into the xml feed and decide if
5, 10, or more will be fed into the xml, but at the moment have no control
over the timeframe (cannot set the date, just the number of items)

Also, different 'clients' have different requirements, some want to see the
last day, some want all the content from last week, some want the content
for the whole of last month but no further.

My understanding so far is that due to the variety of 'clients' requirements
in that respect,
It would be easier to get the parser at your end to decide what to pick up
and what to ignore, provided you have more than one day's items
That should be easy enough to organise

What do you think?

Paola di maio
Content-wire.com






-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Bond [mailto:julian_bond@voidstar.com]
Sent: 15 March 2002 08:21
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [syndication] Being kind to clients

As RSS consumers we have a duty to be kind to RSS providers by not
collecting the RSS too often.

Can I make a request to providers to be kind to clients by limiting the
size and age of items that are sent to clients?

I store 4 weeks of news from each of the providers I read. There are a
few blogs that include items in their RSS that are older than that. So
every 4 weeks I see the same old items come round again as new. It would
seem to be reasonable to limit the age of items to about a week. Anyone
who is reading the RSS reasonably regularly will then be sure of picking
up the items.

There are some RSS providers that only include items from the same (or
previous) day. This is a bit too aggressive. If I miss a collection for
24 hours, I can miss the items completely.

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