Dave Winer wrote:
A few weeks back, a question was raised by Jeremy Zawodny on behalf of Yahoo. They have a large number of RSS feeds that they want to make available to aggregators. They need a machine-readable format and a default location for the file. Further, this file should be able to contain links to other files in this format so that directories can be distributed. A format and location is proposed in this document. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/myPublicFeedsOpml
Please reconsider your use of a fixed URI for the location of the OPML file. While this is the same mechanism that 'favicon.ico' and 'robots.txt' files use, the use of hardcoded URIs isn't a good idea. Tim Berners-Lee outlines some of the problems with such an approach in this message[1] and this issue is currently under consideration of the W3C Tag[2]. Thanks, -joe [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0093.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist#siteData-36 -- http://BitWorking.org http://WellFormedWeb.org