[Sage] AutoUpdate

[Dylan Thurston]

Ok i understand your bandwidth concern, and ttl is probably a great idea,
but lets be honest. there are probably 100 different rss readers/aggregators
out there, and almost all of them have an autoupdate function. I think that
the real solution (in the grand scale of things) Is to have a rss standard
that has a request variable containing a version number/lasted updated
field, so that checks to rss feed only return something if there is a new
news item. Now i know we can change rss that easily, but lets be honest
about rss autoupdate, its used by everyother rss reader, so it should at
least be an option for sage users since it is a basic expected feature of an
rss reader. I know someone will probably dissagree but thats my opinion.
-Dylan

On 2/24/06, too_much green_tea <toomuchgreentea at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- "F.D." <fdg001 at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > ----- Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > > I just finished writting a patch to sage that adds
> > an auto rss update
> > > field to the settings (and of course enables sage
> > to check for rss
> > > updates at a regular interval).
> > > I would love to see this make it into the sage
> > core.
> >
> > Such a function would definitely be useful.
> > So it'd be great if this could make it into the
> > official version of Sage.
> >
> >
> >  - Frederik
>
> I'm still somewhat against autoupdate.
>
> Think about it ... say for a 1kB feed autoupdate every
> 10 mins, and for the sake of the argument the computer
> is on 8hrs a day for 20days a month (very, very modest
> assumption), that's
>
>   0.001 x 6 x 8 x 20 = 0.96MB ~ 1MB per month/user
>
> Now say there are 10,000 of these modest user all
> around the world, then that becomes a 10GB per month
> load on the rss feed server.
>
> And that's only the cost for ONE feed.
>
> If autoupdate must be included, I suggest that Sage
> must support TTL in full. Otherwise RSS would
> eventually be costing too much for providers and would
> no longer be available for free, and as someone who
> rely on rss heavily, I really don't want to see that happen.
>
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