Re: Being kind to clients

["wkearney99" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> 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

It would help if the feeds started including frequency values.  This 
would allow the clients to adopt a polling scheme that best suited 
that of the feed.

As for date ranges, if a feed has info that they consider valuable to 
have available outside of the regularly polled interval then a URL 
accepting parameters would probably be a better idea.

This does raise a question, what would it take for feed sources to 
provide a 'lightweight' indicator of feed status?  What could be done 
to allow a client program to make a very small inquiry instead of a 
full poll?  

-Bill Kearney