Re: shared feed lists
Jeremy Zawodny <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.discuss |
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| Message-ID | <20031014154249.GD585@thermal> |
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:42:42AM -0400, Bill Kearney wrote: > > Why is using a <head> section <link> tag not sufficient? It is sufficient if one has the ability to add <link> tags to their <head>. But what if you cannot? > 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. The analogy isn't quite right here. favicon.ico generates a lot of traffic because most browsers request it. robots.txt is requested by most well-behaved robots. This file is intended to be a simple bootstrap--a way of finding the feeds. It should be requested infrequently and by relatively specific tools. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy-LaWf/[email protected]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/