Date Modified
Thursday, January 26, 2006
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INF: If I delete a recent news item and then update the channel, why is the news item downloaded again?
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This problem is really due to a limitation of RSS itself.
When FeedDemon (or any RSS reader) requests an RSS feed from a web server, the entire feed is downloaded. In other words, FeedDemon is given every news item rather than just new ones. However, most feeds limit themselves to a certain number of items (ex: the 10 most recent), so if you wait a little while after deleting an item, it shouldn't return.
This is a drawback of RSS, but it also makes RSS very simple for people to implement - which is one reason it has become so widespread.
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