Re: [syndication] Re: eXtensible Content Syndication (the next step for OCS)

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <m3bsljex0h.fsf@relativity.yi.org>, burton@relativity.yi.org
writes
>Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com> writes:
>> 3) To provide a storage format for distributing a list of feeds with the
>> install image of a client side aggregator.
>
>I don't understand this?

I was reacting to 
In article <p05101000b79c48eecd44@[63.173.138.112]>, Morbus Iff
<morbus@disobey.com> writes
>If someone downloads my client, and is provided with a list of 1000 feeds
>with no titles or description, than that basically means I have to waste
>the user's time as I go out and somehow aggregate the title and
>descriptions into a database myself - no user is gonna want to wait 50
>minutes while I get all the titles and description each time they want to
>add a new channel (or each week, or what have you).

But I think I misunderstood what Morbus was getting at. The case is a
client side aggregator collecting the meta-data feed. The fact that not
all the data has been collected immediately could be dealt with by
collecting it in the background, but I can see why this might not be
ideal.  

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