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• Subject: Re: What does RSS stand for?
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:33:02 -0700
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Andrew Watt 2000 wrote:

> At the risk of starting a permathread / flame war is there an official
> authoritative position on what RSS stands for?
>
> I have seen:
> RDF Site Summary
> Rich Site Summary
> Really Simple Syndication
>
> Any fully informed opinions?

As I understand it, the "RSS" in "RSS 0.91" stands for Rich Site Summary,
in "RSS 1.0" it stands for "RDF Site Summary", and in "RSS 2.0"
it stands for "Really Simple Syndication".

So all of the above.

--Joe English

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