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