How Reuters Should Be Responding To The AP's Suicide

<i>"Dear AP: your RSS feed is for syndicating your stories. If you don't want the content out there, don't syndicate the content!"</i><p>Have to disagree there. Just because my blog has an RSS feed, doesn't mean you can repost the contents on another site.<p>As someone who has had spam sites set up based on my feeds, it's pretty friggin' annoying.

Reuters could do nothing and come out ahead while the AP wastes money on this. They don't even have to make a statement. All they have to do is not follow the AP's footsteps.

As an aside: Reuters pushed for an open syndication standard--NewsML--back in 2001 (<a href="http://about.reuters.com/newsml/" rel="nofollow">http://about.reuters.com/newsml/</a>). It's become a standard endorsed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.