RSS export file contains previously deleted comment spam

Perhaps posting a link so we can see what you’re talking about would help.

feeds are cached —

Feeds are cached, but, this actually is not a unique problem. I’ve been noticing that content that was previously deleted is continuing to show-up in the feed. This was first brought to my attention by a reader who noticed entries being in the feeds — but the content was deleted from the site.

I came across this post because I’m looking around to see if anyone’s found a way to auto-magically ‘clean’ WordPress, so I don’t have to spend hours hunting around in the database to find the content that should have been deleted by WordPress.

And feel free to take a look, though I can’t guarantee that I won’t have the content deleted before you get an opportunity to look at it.

https://www.remotesensingtools.com/

Actually, looking through everything — I’m coming to an interesting discovery.

The aggregator in question, is through iGoogle. I tried various readers, including Firefox, SharpRSS, and the readers supplied by Google and Gadgets.

Here’s the interesting part. My feeds are actually outputting the intended content — but — anything viewed through Google, is actually pulling up the additional entries that were deleted!

Hmmm. I’m not sure what to make of this at this time, other than the possibility that Google is caching the Web’s feeds and if you make a request to a feed through their site — it will read from the cache and not from the source. Which, if this is the case — is a little too contraversal for my taste.

Play around with different readers and see what you come-up with. I’m not seeing anything on my site that would make this happen — unless I’m completely missing something.

Google does indeed cache feeds. And there’s no way to make them either stop or refresh their cache, as far as I can tell.

Thanks. I’m not sure how I feel about this at this time — and I’m not receiving any replies about the topic from those I know at Google.