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Weblog:   Give Us Full Posts
Subject:   How wonderfully naive
Date:   2004-01-19 17:53:47
From:   anonymous2
... try a google search on RSS and Conditional-GET and then maybe you might figure out that serving your wonderful full-item feeds to even just a thousand broken aggregators (and _most_ are broken) every five minutes over 7x24 is going to take more bandwidth than even ORA could donate.
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  • Marc Hedlund photo Not quite
    2004-01-19 21:40:42  Marc Hedlund | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    First, even many times the numbers you suggest could easily be served by pipes much smaller than O'Reilly's. Even if you were right with your numbers, don't you want the technology to suit the needs of its users, and not be stuck with the limitations of some early broken implementations?
    • Not quite
      2004-01-20 00:40:16  jwenting [Reply | View]

      Want: of course.
      Can have: maybe not.

      I think most people would rather have limited functionality (meaning abstracts) all the time than have full functionality (full posts) at an irregular basis because the service is down more often than not.
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