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December 20, 2004
Give Poor Aggregators Less
John Wilson has a great idea about dealing with bad aggregators: give them less. He has reconfigured his copy of Word Press, blogging software, to provide tiny summaries for aggregators that fail to offer up the right HTTP headers that demonstrate their polite behavior. This is a nifty idea, and one that I would hope we could convince blogging software makers to adopt. It's a pretty trivial change, but it really depends on how they wire in header parsing with response information. I'd like a checkbox in Movable Type that says "restrict text to subject only for aggregators that fail to demonstrate that they understand what changed content means."
Posted by Glennf at December 20, 2004 08:48 PM
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Creative, but I don't like the drawback on the first HTTP GET.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin at December 22, 2004 03:17 PM