Problem with Blosxom RSS feeds
I just noticed a problem with Blosxom RSS feeds. The problem is that I have RSS Bandit set to keep RSS items for about 3 months. After that they’re deleted. The problem is that Blosxom feeds don’t (apparently) set the date correctly for each item in the feed. That means that if a feed is largely stagnant (not much updating), items will be deleted by RSS Bandit for being too old, and then be added right back (since they’re still in the feed) as new.
I assume that if the date for each item was set correctly, then RSS Bandit would hopefully recognize the item as old (based on the date). Instead, they’re being listed as having been added today instead of the date they were actually posted.
This might be a Blosxom RSS template problem or an RSS Bandit problem. Not sure which yet…
Update
This problem is also happening on a feed from a friend’s b2 blog. The problem appears to be that items in the feed do not have dates. When RSS Bandit reads them ,it gives them the current date, and therefor all the items in the feed that are not in RSS Bandits database are added with todays date. That includes items that are older but still in the feed.