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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 20, 2007 3:50AM

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Patrick Lauke wrote:

> Or is offering RSS/Atom feeds also discriminating against users without
> an RSS reader? *rolls eyes*

Surely it is, if you do that by saying, at the bottom of a fairly
normal-looking web page,
"Zyphyxplytz and eFooX users can subscribe"
where "subscribe" is a link, and that's it.

Making some web content accessible _only_ in RSS format is surely
discriminating.

The situation is not comparable, though, since RSS has fairly stable
excuses for a specification, it is widely known and it is supported by the
modern versions of popular web browsers.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/