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www.nequiltmuseum.org On 8/26/2010 3:00 PM, mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote: > Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to > mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mcn-l-request at mcn.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mcn-l-owner at mcn.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of mcn-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. rss feeds today (Ari Davidow) > 2. Re: rss feeds today (Dianne Reuby) > 3. Re: rss feeds today (Richard Urban) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:34:01 -0400 > From: Ari Davidow<aridavidow at gmail.com> > Subject: [MCN-L] rss feeds today > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv<mcn-l at mcn.edu> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinwLNrCaqMt=KSQkLt294UFXE=Fenm5oyeN62st at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I just got a complaint from someone about our "truncated" RSS feed. > Back in the day, we dutifully read the RSS 2.0 spec and put just a > synopsis, or the first part of a post, into the feed. > > I do note that I am seeing lots of posts where the whole thing has > made its way into the RSS. I'm not fond of it--I liked being able to > treat RSS more like a TOC and not have to wade through post-length > text in which I wasn't interested. But I'm also old enough to pass as > fuddy-duddy. > > What are other people doing? Just put it all into RSS? Are you > including HTML markup as well, or still sticking to plain text? Does > it break anything? > > thanks, > ari > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:56:37 +0100 > From: Dianne Reuby<research at museumofcomputing.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] rss feeds today > To: mcn-l at mcn.edu > Message-ID:<1282769797.5101.6.camel at dianne-desktop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > I produce the "truncated" feeds - and almost all the feeds I read are > produced the same way. Only one of the many I subscribe to includes the > full post in the feed. > > This is probably a hangover from dial-up, but if your feed has an > international audience, it's good to remember that many places around > the world still use dial-up, or have slow internet speeds, and will > appreciate the truncated feeds. It's not just us old fuddy-duddies! :) > >
