No, I don't believe jsilence missed the point at all. In fact, that point is the most important one: if all RSS feeds died tomorrow, I would still be able to re-create them on my own machine by periodically polling every single website that I care about.
Now if that sounds like a monster waste of bandwidth, it should: the publishers get something from this deal, too.
Plus they get readership, because I use RSS to remind me that there are articles on the web that I want to read.
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No, I don't believe jsilence missed the point at all. In fact, that point is the most important one: if all RSS feeds died tomorrow, I would still be able to re-create them on my own machine by periodically polling every single website that I care about.
Now if that sounds like a monster waste of bandwidth, it should: the publishers get something from this deal, too. Plus they get readership, because I use RSS to remind me that there are articles on the web that I want to read.