* Bill de hOra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-01 23:55]: > 1: If it doesn't have a permalink (or a link at all), it's not > on the web; in all seriousness, why do we care about it?
Doesn’t matter. I preemptively pointed that out just to say that even if you wanted to propose that feed readers poll every permalink on every feed poll (), that wouldn’t even work. > 2: why does it matter, the difference between falling off the > bottom and being deleted? ’Cause the original use case here is comments feed and comment spam that slipped through. And that reminds that 401 is further useless, because the permalink of such Entries is distinguished from the blog post permalink only through a fragment identifier, so they have no public identity in HTTP separate from the blog post itself. Sorry, 401 doesn’t cut it. Communicating deletion requires the Atom ID, not the permalink, and a timestamp, and that’s all that should be required, which disqualifies the use of atom:entry as the vehicle. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
