Re: shared feed lists
"Bill Kearney" <[email protected]>
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Why is using a <head> section <link> tag not sufficient? Where robots.txt works, in that it's intended as a tool that something potentially causing TREMENDOUS amount of traffic can use as a guide, is useful the same can hardly be said of an index file of this nature. The favicon.ico thing is little more than just another vendor embrace and extend hack. What's 'better' resource-wise? Pull the HTML page, and from within that already obtained data detect a link tag. Pull the contents referenced by that link tag. or Blindly request a link not knowing if it exists or not, waste the bandwidth and clog up server error log? Couple the latter with the horrendously back practices of too-frequent scheduling and you've got a real potential for problems. I, and others, have long thought it's better to make informed requests instead of blindly stabbing around looking for data that's not ever going to be present. The only question becomes agreeing on what attribute value to use for the link tag. So, with as much respect as you're due, explain why the latter (blind requesting) is 'better'. -Bill Kearney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Winer" <dave-rH/ioLL7x7RWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [syndication] RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml > With all due respect, you still haven't provided either a reason not to do > it this way, or a realistic alternative. > > Dave Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/