On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:39:25 +0200, Mathias Schindler neubau@presroi.de wrote:
Rad Geek schrieb:
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[problems with delivery of syndicated feeds by polling ...]
Why? Well, because delivery mechanisms for syndicated feeds are currently *terrible*.
This is not an argument. Since there is no dynamic content, putting it somewhere else is quite easy. I could host those files, htat's not a prolby.
O.K.; I misunderstood the proposal; mea culpa. If there is some kind of system of replicating the data to mirror servers, and people are polling *those* servers instead of the WikiPedia servers, then of course there should be no performance hit.
How would users be directed to the right server? Would they just go to the front page of the data that the feed is syndicating, and find a link to the (offsite) URI? Or would there be some other mechanism?
-C