Comments on: Handle your (UGC) feeds with care! http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/ If you've read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: James White http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/#comment-1949 James White Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:23:46 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/#comment-1949 "That’s just some food for thoughts." - some food? Try all your can eat buffet for thought!! You've raised some good points there, and I expect to see a wave of anti-spam plugins created soon by people inspired by your post! “That’s just some food for thoughts.” - some food? Try all your can eat buffet for thought!! You’ve raised some good points there, and I expect to see a wave of anti-spam plugins created soon by people inspired by your post!

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/#comment-1945 Sebastian Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:51:36 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/#comment-1945 John, AFAIK such XHTML elements are not processed with RSS/ATOM feeds. It doesn't help when the majority of feed handlers out there either ignore such an element, or discard the feed for invalid syntax. My point is, that regardless whether there could be/is a standard that protects URIs in feeds from processing (following, indexing, and whatnot) or not, distributing spam in feeds must not happen. John, AFAIK such XHTML elements are not processed with RSS/ATOM feeds. It doesn’t help when the majority of feed handlers out there either ignore such an element, or discard the feed for invalid syntax. My point is, that regardless whether there could be/is a standard that protects URIs in feeds from processing (following, indexing, and whatnot) or not, distributing spam in feeds must not happen.

]]> By: John S. Britsios http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/#comment-1942 John S. Britsios Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:53:52 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/do-not-accidently-publish-spam-in-your-feeds/#comment-1942 Sebastian you said that there’s no such thing as a rel-nofollow microformat for URIs in feeds. As an alternative, what is if I would add in my RSS (raw xml) file this line? <xhtml:meta content=”noindex” name=”robots” xmlns:xhtml=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” /> Or did I miss your point? [Replaced <> with HTML entities.] Sebastian you said that there’s no such thing as a rel-nofollow microformat for URIs in feeds.

As an alternative, what is if I would add in my RSS (raw xml) file this line?

<xhtml:meta content=”noindex” name=”robots” xmlns:xhtml=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” />

Or did I miss your point?

[Replaced <> with HTML entities.]

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