I've written about my unhappiness with partial entry syndication feeds before . Another limitation of partial feedsthat only struck me recently is that you may well get no sign that anentry has been updated after you've read it.

With a decent feed reader, any change to the text of an entry in thefeed that you've already read gets flagged. With full entries in thefeed, this means that updates get flagged. However, with a partialentry the update may well be made to stuff that

At least around here, it's common for a department to have a number ofdifferent administrative groups inside of it, all of them providingservices (whether internal or external). Generally this produces aprofusion of group websites, partly because each group has differentneeds and partly so that no single group is stuck with the job of beingresponsible for a web server that contains everything, includingpeculiar applications that they don't understand and can't touch.

It's recently struck me that one of the