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Re: [syndication] My take on shared feed lists

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:05:15PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> 
> I'm not saying that's necessarily the best solution. A standard naming 
> convention of course has its drawbacks, and all in all I'm undecided 
> whether I like it or not. But if we are to discard or deprecate a 
> standard naming convention, I would *strongly* suggest augmenting the 
> various RSS protocols so that a feed can specify the location of this 
> file. That way, we still get the benefits of only having to fetch one file.

That's a very good point.  I hadn't thought of the post-discovery and
re-discovery issues yet.
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