[Sage] AutoUpdate

[F.D.]

----- "too_much green_tea" <toomuchgreentea at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm still somewhat against autoupdate.
>
> 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.

You're right - but this is already reality, as most feed readers have
auto-updating.
Feeds are already taking up a lot of traffic (40% for German IT site
Golem.de; http://www.golem.de/0602/43494.html).
That's why many people are pointing to FeedTree
(http://trac.feedtree.net/project/wiki/FeedTree).

btw: I guess for most feeds updating once an hour or less will suffice. But
users might not know or care about that... So if you really wanna go
overboard, you could have Sage analyze how often it needs to update without
missing a headline (this should be more or less constant for most sites).

> If autoupdate must be included, I suggest that Sage
> must support TTL in full.

Well, I don't really know what that means, but I trust your judgement...


 - Frederik