* James Holderness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-07 03:55]: > Steven Lees wrote: >> On the initial sync of a feed, most sync-aware clients will >> still want to ask for the feed without tombstones, so that >> they can just get the non-deleted items. > > I wouldn't think that's worth the effort. Tombstones should be > small enough and infrequent enough that I wouldn't care about > getting them on an initial sync.
It’s pointless either way. You might avoid receiving a bunch of irrelevant tombstones on the first fetch – only to end up getting them all on your second fetch. You could invest somewhat significant extra complexity to make it actually work… all so you can avoid a handful of tombstones for a short period after subscribing to a feed. Ahem. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
