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9 May, 2006

Full text RSS feeds can be used for nefarious reasons by spammers?

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Are you putting ALL of your content into the RSS feed, or just the title and description tags?

Perhaps you should think about what may happen to your content, if you decide to place everything into the feed?

A wonderful, and thought provoking, article by the Technology Evangelist makes me wonder whether enough people know about the issue of plagiarism via the delivery of RSS feeds.

Putting ALL your content into the feed, means that it can be 'parsed' readily into any other webpage and not necessarily with your approval or permissions.

Whereas just supplying the title and description means that the end user has to click through for the body of the content, supplying the full text means that you have lost control of your own [intellectual] property, to some degree.

A great article, sure to set you think more about this contentious issue. Please do read it, you'll probably re-think your strategies hereinafter.

Plagiarising your feeds?

Warm wishes, my property protecting protagonist pals,

Mike