{"id":805,"date":"2007-09-24T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/24\/rss-reader-this-is-why\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T23:33:12","slug":"rss-reader-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/09\/rss-reader-this-is-why\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS reader: this is why!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Eckel is an intelligent guy. He wrote “Thinking in Java<\/a>“, in case you did not know him. In this post<\/a> he discusses the RSS phenomena and why it’s wrong.<\/p>\n

Now I can agree to the fact that RSS readers create way more traffic than people that ordinarily surf to a website and click on a bunch of hyperlinks. RSS readers do in fact poll each website the reader is subscribed to whether there is a change. Yet. Can’t agree more.<\/p>\n

But this (knowing a subscription changed the day\/minute\/second it has changed) is not the reason why I use an RSS reader. Nor is it anonymity. The reason is the sheer number of subscriptions I have. How on earth am I supposed to click through a couple of hundred websites to see if something changed? And when I am at number 176, of course just when I missed it, number 173 has changed. So while waiting for an answer in a forum, a patch to a bug or just the news about the latest release of your my favorite piece of software, I missed it because I was manually browsing the internet. Manually browsing the internet is from the past century. The internet is too big to do that.<\/p>\n

Of course I could subscribe to a mailinglist. And create a gazillion message-rules in my mailreader. Why? I have an RSS reader. And yes, it gives me anonymity as well. Even Artima<\/a> needs you to sign in to even comment on Bruce’s post. Why? Afraid that Anonymous_Coward would leave an inappropriate comment? Don’t allow anonymous commenting then. Create a clever check for the email address or display the IP-address. Why should I want an Artima ID just to place some comments?<\/p>\n

Get a life. If you don’t want traffic on your website, don’t create an RSS-feed. How’s that?<\/p>\n

One other thing: how about reversing the situation. You update your website, and you send a notification to all subscribers. Do you know what would happen? Right. Your ISP would cut you off, because of….spamming activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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