I think "pointless" is going a bit overboard, it's up to the client to decide how long to cache a feed, and the cache policy for the feed should use normal HTTP conventions - the Last-modified, If-modified-since and Expires headers.
If the feed expired in 60 minutes that would be enough to update for changing locations.
-> http://ezproxy.plsinfo.org:2048/login?url=http://proquestcom...