RE: [syndication] Re: My take on shared feed lists

["Roger B." <rogben@swbell.net>]

Jeremy Zawodny:
> Is there any consensus among aggregators on how to handle this?
> Do some use only the first (or last) one?  Which ones actually
> provide a list?  I ask because I've never seen one present a list,
> so I really don't know.

Jeremy,

Newzcrawler lists 'em all, FWIW.

> Do I have a way defalated sense of how popular this is going to be,
> or what?

It all depends on how a given aggregator handles autodiscovery. Newzcrawler
does it in the background as I browse... in that case, having it check for a
default file on every site I visit would be a rather bad idea. But if an app
only does the file lookup as a last resort after a user has clicked a "find
feeds" button, then no, it isn't gonna be that big a deal.

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