[uf-discuss] Re: Generating valid unique IDs for hAtom

[Toby A Inkster]

David Janes wrote:

> There's lots of reasons a permalink may change -- for example, another
> site may be reposting the message, in which case it has a different
> permalink but a different Atom ID. The beauty here is that an
> intelligent feed reader won't show it to you twice.

Why repost? Why not just link to the original article? In which case it
has the same Permalink and the same Atom ID. The beauty here is that an
intelligent browser won't hit the server twice (it will retrieve the
article from the cache) and it will mark the link purple to indicate that
you've already read the page.

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