Re: broken link: RSS feed for public-tracking@w3.org mail archives

Hi Ian,


On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 09:03 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I took a look and I think the answer is:
> 
>  * There are no messages yet
>  * The feed won't exist until there are messages
>  * The 404 will thus disappear with the first message.

I agree.  This sounds like the most probable cause.

> I'm getting confirmation from my colleagues that this is the reason.

If this is the case, then I think current behaviour of the system should
be considered a bug.  I would rather expect the response to be an empty
feed (no entries, but with title, link rel="alternate", etc).


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