Being kind to clients

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

As RSS consumers we have a duty to be kind to RSS providers by not
collecting the RSS too often.

Can I make a request to providers to be kind to clients by limiting the
size and age of items that are sent to clients?

I store 4 weeks of news from each of the providers I read. There are a
few blogs that include items in their RSS that are older than that. So
every 4 weeks I see the same old items come round again as new. It would
seem to be reasonable to limit the age of items to about a week. Anyone
who is reading the RSS reasonably regularly will then be sure of picking
up the items.

There are some RSS providers that only include items from the same (or
previous) day. This is a bit too aggressive. If I miss a collection for
24 hours, I can miss the items completely.   

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