Re: [syndication] Re: Ads in RSS

[Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:57:47PM -0000, peteb@aliaron.com wrote:
> --- In syndication@y..., Mike Krus <mkrus@n...> wrote:
> > I personally don't like it, the mixing of form and content. But
> > the bottom line is that you can make a program make sense of simple
> > HTML to get richer information (links et al.) and that the
> > information in those feeds is worth the trouble!
> 
> But should the practice be perpetuated ?

how do you stop it? tell people to stop providing so much info?

rss 1.0 theoretically has (some of) the flexibility to accomodate
the richer data that people obviously want to provide. we need more
tools that produce it, consume it, and provide 'good' examples for
people to follow.

jim