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It seems Python owns us is not syndicated either in the "original" Python Programmer Weblogs or in Planet Python. I don't know what's up with Planet Python (maybe it's same as with the other), but Python Programmer Weblogs has a link to the RSS feed of POU's previous location (http://www.hole.fi/jajvirta/weblog/rss.xml), which, alas, is not up at the moment. (And the site is not in my control.) But the thing is that the previous location has been giving permanent redirect for at least eight months. Google, for example, correctly displays the new syndication location if you ask for http://www.hole.fi/jajvirta/weblog/rss.xml.

A permanent redirect means, according to RFC 2616, that

The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs.
It's only a SHOULD, sure, but it'd be nice if aggregators respected it. I cannot do much else myself, because I've corrected the wiki page, but it seems it isn't scraped automatically anymore.

And I know that this is the wrong place to whine about the issue, because anyone reading POU directly don't need it in the syndicated feeds. (Actually, it might be for the better this way, since you don't have to see my entries twice.) Anyway, this entry falls into the category "in case you wondered". I did.

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Posted by Jarno Virtanen at 01.02.2005, 06:40

Cool, thanks. :-)