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title: "No More Mr. RSSify"
date: 2003-05-21T21:06:21-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/05/21/no-more-mr-rssify/
author: Les Orchard
---

# No More Mr. RSSify

<blockquote cite="http://www.voidstar.com/rssify.php">RSSify is a rather horrible hack that shouldn't be needed any more. Please ask the owner of the site you're reading (...) to change to a system that generates <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> natively such as Blogger Pro or Movable Type. Alternatively consider hosting <a href="http://www.voidstar.com/downloads/rssify.php.txt" target="_top">RSSify</a> yourself rather than using my bandwidth.</blockquote>
<div class="credit" align="right"><small>Source:<cite><a href="http://www.voidstar.com/rssify.php">22-May-03 Moving away from <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a>ify</a></cite></small></div>
<br /><br />
Noticed this show up suddenly today as the new item to a surprising number of
feeds to which I subscribe.  I knew <a href="http://www.voidstar.com" target="_top">Julian Bond</a>'s public <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a>ifying service
had gotten used far and wide, but wow.  The bandwidth bills must've been getting
quite annoying, having become a sort of adhoc bit of the
<a href="http://www.rube-goldberg.com/" target="_top">Rube Goldberg</a> blog
infrastructure.  So, as for my own consumption, thanks for the use of your tool Julian, and
all apologies for being a leech!
<br /><br />
Well, I'm still working a bit on my own Java-based transmogrifier robot
to scrape disparate sources of info into <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> feeds for me.  I suppose I
should get to work trading my <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a>ify-based subscriptions for my own
DIY-scraped versions.  If I get some time soon, I'll wrap this thing
up and release it.  But first, I hope to get it fully automatedly working with the
iTunes Music Store, <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/blog/tech/itunes_rss.html" target="_top">as I've been tinkering</a>.
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221088698" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-05-22T06:58:05">2003-05-22T06:58:05</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Actually the bandwidth is not that bad. Mostly I just felt that the need for RSSify should have gone away by now. I think it's time to encourage people to take control and produce the RSS themselves.

Now can I interest you in Gnews2rss.php?</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221088699" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-05-23T19:32:10">2003-05-23T19:32:10</time></a>
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            <div class="content">eh..  as it profits me not at all to blog I have little interest expending any money to offer RSS.  As RSSify dies so goes my feed?  Perhaps not.  There are some other interesting indices with RiSSing potential...</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221088700" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-05-23T19:33:24">2003-05-23T19:33:24</time></a>
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            <div class="content">However... kudos to RSSify thus far for the amazing service!  God bless!!</div>
            
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