On 7/6/06, Henry Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6 Jul 2006, at 17:01, Kyle Marvin wrote: > On 7/6/06, Henry Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am not sure that is relevant. If people do that, then people will >> soon notice, and discard their feed. No one is forced to read >> someone's feed. > > If you are in the business of providing feeds that you hope people > will want to read, it's highly relevant, hence why servers need the > ability to appropriately protect themselves. > > Maybe the missing piece of context here is the notion that often these > feeds (or collections) might contain entries posted by multiple users > (clients), making it hard to not throw the baby out with the > bathwater. Should not identification deal with that then? Hey is that not the same with this mailing list? People could spam this list for viagara adds in the hope of making a few bucks, but their rights to post would soon be removed by our admins.
Yeah, let's use e-mail as our model. That battle seems so under control.
