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RSS updates: there has to be a better way

Apr 30th, 2003
by Jim Reverend.
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RSS Feeds are great and all, but there has to be a better way.
Using RSS as the method of encapsulating information is fine. However, polling them every hour, half hour, or thirty seconds is a bit ridiculous. There's got to be a way to let a particular server know that you're interested in being notified [...]