What Disadvantages Does RSS Have For People Reading Feeds?
Only the current edition of each feed is available. If you don’t access some editions of feeds, those editions will be lost as soon as a new edition is published. For example, if a feed is updated daily and you fail to access it while you are on holiday for a week, there is no way of accessing those past editions (unless the feed creator makes them available on their web site). Feeds will not be stored on a server or in an inbox waiting for you to download and read them. However, it is technically possible that a program could download and store feeds on a regular basis, provided the computer is switched on. It is also technically feasible that a program running on another computer could perform this task for you. As far as I know neither of these facilities are actually available at present. RSS feeds often include many old items. In most cases new items are inserted at the top and old items dropped off the bottom. In many cases items are not dated, even though it is technically extre
