Re: [syndication] RSS Clients

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <200105172145.OAA07878@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>, Eric
Bohlman <ebohlman@earthlink.net> writes
>But if everyone who hit Slashdot also 
>had to hit the RSS 
>feed, the site with the feed would be getting hit hard.  The problem wouldn't 
>so 
>much be bandwidth; 
>RSS files are usually short; it would be the sheer number of HTTP connections.

I guess this is where some of Moreover's money went... Have you noticed
how many people have Moreover feeds on their web pages? Clearly serving
all that can be done, but you have to put a lot of effort into it.

Using server side code to get the feed in a polite way is not hard as
long as you have some server scripting ability. But an awful lot of
websites don't.

I started his thread with "I've been thinking about the need for more
clients for RSS." Maybe there's some other ideas out there. What I
really want is a "Daily Me", but I haven't seen it yet.

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