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by wonka 6407 days ago
That would be pretty pointless considering RSS feeds are cached.
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I think "pointless" is going a bit overboard, it's up to the client to decide how long to cache a feed, and the cache policy for the feed should use normal HTTP conventions - the Last-modified, If-modified-since and Expires headers.

If the feed expired in 60 minutes that would be enough to update for changing locations.

I bet it breaks on google reader, and similar browser-based feeds.