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Best Practice For Retiring RSS Feeds?
GBJ writes "I work for an organisation that runs seasonal online competition events. Each event has its own news feed which becomes obsolete shortly after the event finishes. We're still getting RSS requests for some events as far back as 2004. I'd like to close a few thousand old feeds and remove the resource hit they cause, but I'm not sure what is the best approach. Currently I'm considering just returning a 404, but I have no idea if there is a better way to handle this. Uncle Google hasn't turned anything up yet, but sometimes it's hard to find something when you don't know what it's called ..."
The most appreciative thing you could do for the preservation of history is to place static simple RSS files at those addresses that include a link to your archives for the event.
Agreed: I was angsty in my 20's too. I had long frizzled hair and wore an army jacket with patches all over it, and hated the world and all the Web 2.0 Facebook stupid morons in it.
I'm now in my 40's. I have a haircut, I'm sitting in an office cube wearing a polo shirt next to the network Nazi aka Samschnooks [slashdot.org].
And I've got some news for you. It's *all* pointless. The end is the same for everybody. We're all worm food. Doesn't matter if you rage against the machine or use sperm whale oil in its gears. In a hundred years, I promise you, I promise it won't matter one whit.
What does matter is what you do with the time your have. And I'll say this - I'm happier now at 40 with a nice job, nice house, nice car, nice pool, nice BBQ, nice yard, nice Jew's harp, nice RV, nice stand-alone DVD player, nice Betamax and a family I love dearly - however boring and polite they may be - than I *ever* was at 20 running around rebelling against everything mocking the stupid Slashdot shit-eating sheeple.
My advice would be to take whatever brilliance Samschnooks [slashdot.org] can give you and apply it to your own life, if you're able. Solve your own problems, 'tards. Find whatever happiness you can. Because sitting around picking your nose and your own wounds to keep them fresh doesn't do a single bit of good. But it sure does feel good to scratch them from time to time
I have friends who never "sold out". They're miserable. They sell PCs at Circuit City. Most are too poor to fix their shit-encrusted Linux boxes. If you sit around and tend a harvest of misery your whole life, then that will be your reward.
To sum up, life only sucks if you work at making it suck...as Samschnooks [slashdot.org] will tell you. Let it go. NOW.
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