Re: more on the simplified feed format

[Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> As it is I already have gotten less and less use from
> feeds that don't provide full content (e.g. I've
> almost stopped reading Tim Bray's feed bacuase he only
> includes the first paragraph in the feed and its
> rarely interesting enough to hook me into launching
> the browser to go to his page

It's a matter of economics.  I regularly write very long entries.  I am 
currently serving my rss feed every two or three seconds, and I pay 
real money for bandwidth.  It's just totally insane for me to serve, 
and for the aggregators to read, my 800 words on Vancouver's drug 
problem or internationalizing search engines for the large majority of 
people who aren't gonna read that.  Yes, serving code 304 helps, and 
yes, I should get into compressing the feed, but it's just bad 
engineering to force people like me who write long pieces to stuff the 
whole thing into the feed.  There has to be a better way.  -Tim