Re: limiting RSS items?
Salix wrote:
> I find the 50 items in the full-text-RSS-feed too many.
> I usullay refresh the feed hourly or so. I can't hardly
> remember receiveing 50 new messages in an hour so the rest
> is just taking broadband. (1 kb? ;-D) Anyway if I go home and
> switch on the computer then I get the same 50 messages again.
>
> Wouldn't it be enough to have 25 items in the full-text version?
> Or what about a CGI with custom calls (e.g. messages_full.ex?i=25)
> instead of the static XML?
I don't think I can easily use CGI for this.
I could create more than one feed,
containing different numbers of messages, but that's
a bit of a bother. With 50 messages, the file is about
150K to 200K. I also have a bit of a delay each time I go into
Thunderbird e-mail, and like you, I also check my e-mail many times
per day. I think you can tell Thunderbird not to check the feed
every time, but rather set a time span for it.
There are some people who check very often, but there are probably
others who check their e-mail (and RSS) about once per day. It would be
nice if the once-a-day people were guaranteed of not missing
anything. In November we averaged about 24 messages per day, so
a 50-message file is good for about 2 days.
Rather than having a fixed number of messages in the file,
it might be smarter to aim for a fixed time-span of messages.
When things are busy, there would be more messages, and when
things are quiet there would be fewer messages, but overall,
the risk of someone missing some messages might be reduced.
I'll experiment with that, with a view to slightly reducing the
average number of messages contained in the feed.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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