http://ask.metafilter.com/102561/How-do-I-fool-the-rss-feed-into-not-updating/ Comments on Ask MetaFilter post How do I fool the rss feed into not updating? Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:36:44 -0800 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:36:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/102561/How-do-I-fool-the-rss-feed-into-not-updating Is there a way to update information on a website that has an rss feed and have the feed not show the pages as "updated?" I have a collection of news releases that were inconsistently showing some information. I made them consistent, but the next time I update the rss feed, every news release I did this year will come up as new. Any way to prevent that? post:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.102561 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:07:13 -0800 answergrape rss feed computer website http://ask.metafilter.com/102561/How-do-I-fool-the-rss-feed-into-not-updating#1487189 How are you publishing the RSS feed? If your feed's <item> elements have <guid> sub-elements, you can update the content without changing the GUIDs and conformant aggregators and readers should treat the items as already-seen. But if some automated tool is packaging your site's content for RSS distribution then it may be updating their GUIDs based on its own idea of when the content has been updated. comment:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.102561-1487189 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:36:44 -0800 nicwolff