Indeed it is popular. Half the hits on my website are generated via RSS 
feeds. And people checking out the webcomics I have feeds for on my main 
web page nearly doubled the amount of bandwidth the comics were using for a 
few days according to the owner.

At 12:51 PM 20/01/2005, you wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Francoise Becker wrote:
>
> > I would like to get feedback on this feature. As an RSS user, what
> > changes would you want to see in the presentation? As a list owner,
> > what kinds of controls do you want over what is presented to your RSS
> > subscribers?
>
>This is nice... if only you had it before I wrote it in Perl. ;-)
>
>You can improve performance a bit by including a lastBuildDate in the
>header (corresponding the the last update of that archive). If nothing has
>changed, no need to update the local cache.
>
>It also helps the user if there is an optional image with a title and link
>so they can be pointed to the server archives. I use something like this
>for both:
>
><link>http://www.nyed.circ2.dcn/archives</link>
><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:01:20 GMT</lastBuildDate>
><image>
>         <url>http://www.nyed.circ2.dcn/Banner1.gif</url>
>         <title>LISTSERV Archives from the Eastern District of New 
> York</title>
>         <link>http://www.nyed.circ2.dcn/archives</link>
></image>
>
>You also want to fix the feed to use GMT for the date, or it will display
>the incorrect date/time in most readers. Your message, frex, has this:
>
>         <dc:date>Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:40:21 -0500</dc:date>
>
>That should be:
>
>         <dc:date>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:40:21 GMT</dc:date>
>
>Without the change, your message displays as:
>
>         by Francoise Becker on 1/19/2005 2:40 PM
>
>but the source says what you see in the first case above.
>
>This will prove very popular. Over 40% of my readers use the RSS
>interface to access our lists.
>
>-- DCP