Re: [syndication] some republished feeds

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

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:05:31AM +0000, Julian Bond wrote:
> In article <20010319203937.A12914@trainedmonkey.com>, Jim Winstead
> <jimw-yahoo@trainedmonkey.com> writes
> >i assume i'll have to stop offering some of these at some point
> >when one of the sites i'm scraping decides they don't want the
> >traffic. until then, feel free to poll them hourly and redistribute.
> 
> You did wack off an email to the webmasters of these sites asking for an
> RSS feed, right?

not all of them. for all of the ones i did contact (the los angeles
times and thestandard among them), i never got a response.

heck, i'd love to get asked to stop offering one of the feeds.
then i could have someone to talk with to pitch them on offering
their own feeds, and be relieved of the hassle of scraping.

my original intention wasn't to republish the feeds -- the only
reason i really scrape the sites is for my own reading pleasure.
i'm just republishing the feeds because i can, and thought some
people might find them useful.

i'll address a couple of other issues in the thread while i'm
at it:

i don't know if this is a copyright violation. if asked, i'll
remove the feeds. i don't mind the risk of alienating the potential
providers, since it would be a sign of life at those companies.

as to feeds that duplicate what is available from moreover and
newsisfree, i wanted info that wasn't available from either source
(publication times on items, and descriptions).

jim