http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/06/13/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions/ Open information and technology. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/06/13/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions/#comment-235 Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:28:29 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=52#comment-235 [...] David Megginson posted today about The case against easier feed subscriptions, noting that if it’s too easy to subscribe to a feed, it will also be too easy to sneak a subscription into someone’s feed reader and use it for illegitimate purposes. The response I posted was as follows: [...]

]]> http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/06/13/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions/#comment-234 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:46:52 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=52#comment-234 Good point! The approach I’d favor would be to make it easy to view a feed, but require another click to subscribe to it. It’s a little odd to me that feed readers require you to subscribe to a feed in order to view it. Subscribing to a feed is like bookmarking a webpage. While your web browser may keep a temporary history of every page you’ve viewed, it doesn’t bookmark all of them automatically. Feed readers should offer this same mode of operation.

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