> GUID is a unique indentifier? except that it's not a global address,
> it something useful inside a local system.

Well, do a little more research on it. You'll find otherwise.

> we have these already in terms of these funny URI/URL thingy's

Which require significantly greater amount of CPU processing as they're strings.
GUIDs can be represented as string but as hex numbers and can be manipulated as
such.

> GUID's are badly over used by developers, they are not user friendly,
> they provide no useful information and they are horrible to type...

So don't type them. This isn't something a user is ever going to manually
create.

> how many websites have you seen where developers create article id's
> using GUID's

Several actually. As I'm the lead editor behind Syndic8.com I've had /quite/ a
bit of access and familiarity with over 15 thousand different feeds generating
over 110,000 headlines *per day*. So I know what I'm talking about.

> please keep rss simple, this guid's idea sounds like the disaster
> that happened when people mixed RDF into RSS...

Ah well, then it's rather pointless to discuss it with you then, isn't it?

-Bill Kearney