Hello World:

This is a follow through question to my post over here:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=807880

I typically use forums and mailing list for discussion, and I am not an experienced blogger. I'd like to try some blogging with RSS, however, so please excuse if these questions sound naive. Just trying to keep things safe.

1 - TRUE or FALSE: The RSS security problems people explained in response to my previous post seem only to pertain to incoming (i.e. aggregated) data. In other words, I can still generate any kind of feed I want without compromising security, right?

2 - TRUE OR FALSE: As per aggregating from various feeds, I can choose which feeds to subscribe to, so it would seem that if the feed is a trusted source (e.g. like another one of your own sites), then one could aggregate off of those feeds without having to worry about hostile content. Is that correct?

3 - TRUE OR FALSE: If one is going to aggregate information from a relatively unknown source, then one is going to want to make sure your RSS aggregator scripts filter out anything but the most basic HTML tags.

The benefit in these questions seems to be that - if they are true - 1.) one can still create any kind of feed one wants, even allowing others to read it, and 2.) also one can propound any kind of trusted aggregated information, but, if the source isnt well known, then to program the aggregator to filter out hostile content.

Like I said, I am new to blogging, but it sounds like RSS is both fun and useful, so any help is much is much appreciated.

TIA!

BH

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