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                                What a racket

I had problems with people reformatting [1] my RSS feed (Rich Site Summary)
[2] but it appears that other people [3] have problems with RSS (Rich Site
Summary) feeds but for another reason: unintentional content stealing.

Granted, if you make an RSS feed available, with the full content of your
site available odds are people will take advantage of this in ways you may
not have intended, up to making it available for other people to read. The
person [4] in question did not know the software he was using made an RSS
feed available and was shocked at finding his content elsewhere (but that
republishing of his content has since been removed).

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/07/25.2
[2] https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss
[3] http://www.blogroots.com/comments.blog/157
[4] http://blogs.salon.com/0001107/2002/08/30.html#a56

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