Re: more on the simplified feed format

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Seairth Jacobs <seairth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Note that lack of the etag attribute is because I
> realized you could 
> handle that bit by doing a conditional GET on the
> entry document itself 
> (see my response to Randy).  This would also reduce
> the number of times 
> the feed itself needs to be updated (kept
> synchronized with the entry 
> documents).

Do you realize how ridiculously expensive this is? I
have users with hundreds of feeds and the thought of
performing a few dozen GET requests for a single feed
(e.g. if you are subscribed to Robert Scoble's feed)
is impractical. 

As it is I already have gotten less and less use from
feeds that don't provide full content (e.g. I've
almost stopped reading Tim Bray's feed bacuase he only
includes the first paragraph in the feed and its
rarely interesting enough to hook me into launching
the browser to go to his page and I'm not the only one
I know who's mentioned this) let alone going to the
extreme of providing no content. I don't see how this
is beneficial to either content producers or
consumers. 

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