Re: [syndication] Re: Ads in RSS

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <5.0.2.1.0.20010315110129.01e48550@mail192.pair.com>, Robert
A. Lentz <ralentz@ralentz.com> writes
>At 10:55 AM 3/15/01, you wrote:
>>If there was a no <img > switch, I'd probably flip it.
>
>You would then need a switch for all the other methods of embedding 
>content, or for the switch to cover them all in one swoop.  And probably 
>want to filter out Javascript as well... gets to be the usual arms race 
>fighting the overbearing advertisers.

Oh, well. I guess we'll just have to evangelize "Don't abuse it" at the
same time as we evangelize "Produce an RSS file, damn it".

BTW. As I travel round the web I'm getting into pretty much the same
conversation again and again. "Do you produce an RSS file?", "no what's
that?", "It's etc". The best recent one was an analyst company who
wanted to sell me a javascript news feed for $10K. The underlying data
was just a precis-ed press release and one para of analyst comment. I
pointed him at Moreover, Newsisfree and Blogspace/Rss and got my coat!
Then there was the UK News site producing their own XML format of full
content, in one new file per day and leaving it on a public directory!
"I've been meaning to research RSS..."

Oh well.

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