Re: [syndication] Re: robots.txt and rss

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> To answer your questions (even though I would prefer you edit out
> phrases like "relentlessly hammering" -- it's so confrontational and
> even unprofessional, but that's your style I guess).

Dave, try to take the high road.

> 1. Not aware of any feeds using the module you suggest, do you have
> any pointers. If so we may support it.

Searching Syndic8 works wonders...  STFW.

> 2. skipHours, per the spec, is GMT. We're following the spec.

Be sure to double-check on this.  Time, especially with regard to offsets, is
critically defective in a number of situations.  Most glaring are offset
calculations applied to out of current offset timestamps.  But that's grist for
another thread.  Many OSes and platforms (usertalk) do not handle it properly.

Suffice to say I am expecting a rash user complaints about missed feeds.  From
what I recall, there are many feeds that do not understand how to timestamp
properly.  Many are using a local time and presenting it as UTC (as the GMT
naming is deprecated).  Thus all sorts of screwy calculations start to cascade.
This ends up risking leaving feeds completely skipped.

> 3. The concerns you saw raised were about code that is not yet
> released.

Fine, code comes out via automatic updates.  What protocol you use to determine
what's "released" or not is hard to gauge given that situation.

> BTW, a question for you. When will Syndic8 stop counting RSS 0.90
> feeds as if they were 1.0 feeds?

In keeping with your demands, do you have any pointers to such?  Bearing in mind
that there are some feeds driving content incorrectly.  Some are pushing what's
ostensibly 0.9x content in a 1.0 wrapper.  Slowly but surely those get noticed
and corrected.  The labors of the volunteers have been very helpful and more are
certainly welcome.

-Bill Kearney