Re: [syndication] Yahoo! News RSS Feeds Launched

[Mark Fletcher <markf@wingedpig.com>]

Jeremy Zawodny wrote:

> Okay, as noted here:
>
>   http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000952.html
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> They're up for real this time.
>
>  
It looks like that the <link> for each item in the feed changes every 
time the feed is fetched. It looks like a tracking URL is being used, 
perhaps to correlate a link to a particular RSS fetch. I don't mind the 
tracking aspect, but because the link changes, Bloglines considers each 
item as being updated every time we fetch one of the feeds. We track 
which items each user has read, and when an item is updated, we treat it 
as an unread item. So users end up seeing items they've already read, 
over and over.

Any chance of getting this changed? We could special case the Yahoo 
feeds. Or we could ignore changes to <link> tags in general. Both are 
doable, but suboptimal.

As an aside, to other aggregator writers. Do other aggregators consider 
changes to <links> to indicate that an item has been updated?


Thanks,

Mark
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