Re: mine rss feeds

Computer Nerd Kev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2026-08-04, Jeffrey Bagely wrote:
>>> I haven't used RSS feeds in a long time simply because all these would 
>>> ever do is point me to a website rather than providing me with an actual 
>>> article to read. I got tired of this and just stopped using them.
>>>
>>> Are there any RSS feeds that don't do this?
>> 
>> Feeds that are configured to serve the full content. Also, I think I've
>> read somewhere that there's a limitation in RSS that makes it so that
>> you can only serve either a summary or the full content, but that Atom
>> allows this.
> 
> No, though the name "description" for the element which contains
> the text in RSS suggests it doesn't contain the full article, the
> RSS standard states that either usage is valid:

Sorry, I thought you said "summary of the full content". Yes it
seems you can't have both summary and full content in different
elements. Though I don't imagine people would choose to offer the
former over the latter if it was just for want of a way to offer
both.

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