Re: [syndication] Being kind to clients

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com> writes:

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> 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.

Also... if you could start providing dublin core date info that would be REALLY
nice.  This way we can assign data information on client bootup.

Reptile has this problem because all items are marked new when in fact they are
a week old.

> 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.

Not if you start using Reptile soon.   :)

We will be using supernodes that have this info cached.  If your peer stays
offline for a few days it will attempt to get this info from other peers.

Anyway... at least it is planned :)

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In the end, only kindness matters.
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