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> If your RSS/Atom feed doesn't contain full entry text, I am ditching you from my subscription list.

sayonara. :(

erm... does mine?

ooooh! this preview thingy is very cool...

Doh!
;)
I forgot that this is still a sticking point for some people... Patrick, do you refuse to do it or you just didn't get around to it?
Gen, nope yours doesn't... ;)

There's a bunch of reasons why one should have full entry text in one's feeds... but I'm not gonna start preaching...

Sorry everyone for that rant... I think the fluorescent lights got to me today. Hehe.

Boris, I'd appreciate a tutorial on how to structure feeds, actually. I also need to incorporate favicons into a few things I'm building...

I just refuse to do it for bandwidth reasons. I think it's a big waste. :)

Boris' 20K feed * 4 times an hour (reasonable, often default setting) * 24h * 30 days = 56+MB per user per month, and that's for a user who doesn't even come to your site.

Also I think it's easy enough to double-click a headline that interests you. Personally I like reading articles by going to the Web site, so if I'm given a choice between full text or short excerpt RSS, I pick the short one.

Just my opinion of course. :)

Btw, I think there are some good reasons for full text (like reading offline, or on non-PC devices), but the reason I don't offer it is that I don't want people to use it in their regularly-refreshing reader.

"Wasted bandwidth"... Like it's a non-renewable resource?
"user that doesn't come to my site"... the site/protocol is meaningless, as long as readers have access to it's content...
I have a 500Gig/month limit which I am nowhere near reaching... do you pay yours by the kilobyte? You live in Japan dude! For $50 a month you get 100Mbit optical fiber to the home with no transfer limit. Where's "wasted bandwidth"? ;)

Clicking through is not an option most days (except maybe lazy weekends). I have over 500 feeds to track.

Also, most of the newsreaders out there respect the HTTP 1.1 304 error code: "Not Modified" ... by answering the request with a bandwidth busting reply containing merely the last modified date.

;)

Perhaps I was a bit hasty with my rant though. Perhaps I'll just put all the "Excerpters" in a separate folder, call it "Sunday reading"... ;)

< "Wasted bandwidth"... Like it's a non-renewable resource?

In the case of my hosting (not my connection) it's not unlimited, so you could say that. :)
These last months I'm hitting 2-3GB and I'm not yet too sure of the cause. I suspect a few stupid image hot-linkers, so I blocked hot-linking a few days ago.

< Also, most of the newsreaders out there respect the HTTP 1.1 304 error code: "Not Modified" ...

Very right, I hadn't thought of that!
I'll think of making a full text feed then. :)

shit, i've got 2 posts on "folksonomies," but one was in reference to a specific prob I'm having, and the other a link to borges, who always says things in such an ingenious way, that I think I should be given a bye.