Garrett Rooney wrote:
On 10/10/05, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. Do we really want people "subscribing" to mailing lists using atom
over http? This would consume way more resources than a standard
mailing list subscription (due to the polling nature of atom). I don't
have any evidence, but this worrys me.
I guess the question is, what are we concerned about?
Is it the bandwidth used by people downloading the feeds? Is it the
CPU server side that we need to spend serving them up? Is it both?
Both.
It just comes down to two questions. Do we want to offer the service,
and if so, what resource utilization do we want to optimize for?
Yes, I agree. I just meant to double-check that people think this is
really an important feature. Because we already offer a perfectly good
subscription service via email that is much less resource intensive from
the server side. I do understand, however, that some apache lists can
be overwhelming to receive via email, so an atom feed might be useful to
some people. I just hope it is a small minority.
Joshua.
