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Re: [syndication] shared feed lists



On 10/14/2003 9:42 AM Bill Kearney noted that:

Why is using a <head> section <link> tag not sufficient?

It doesn't seem to make sense to force someone to pull a file that they may or may not want (and may or may not exist) in order to find out where something, possibly completely unrelated, lives.

I don't mind using that approach when related HTML exists, but as it relates to my implementation, it doesn't always exist and I don't see a clearcut reason why we should force it to exist.

On the other hand, we're doing exactly what this proposes to solve for using OCS and a predictable file location. Happy to extend the discovery mechanism (easy) but not too crazy about having to take another format into consideration on behalf of my users.

Why isn't OCS "good enough" to do this?

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