Re: yahoogroups RSS

Shame they're not valid.  Using relative URLs isn't correct.  But that's only
within the context of the author element.  Which is also strange in that it's
using embedded HTML.

They also appear to be using user-agent detection.  The feed differs depending
on which agent you're using.  When using 'wget' the xml doesn't contain the
author link info.  While it does when using a browser.  Interesting.  I'd wonder
what other user-agent differences exist?

Likewise it's a shame they're not including decent timestamp info.

So yeah, they 'suck less' but they're not as good as one might hope.

-Bill Kearney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Bond" <julian_bond-/Fkc1E/MbsFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:37 AM
Subject: [syndication] yahoogroups RSS


> Yahoogroups RSS suddenly got much, much more useful.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/your_group_name/messages?rss=1&viscount=15
>
> It's now an RSS 2.0 feed with a one line description extracted from the
> email with considerable smarts.
>
> If you run any yahoogroup mailing lists this is a good reason for making
> the messages open.

 

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