On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Remko Tronçon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, the most important disadvantage of push is probably > privacy: with push, you have to provide your contact address in order > to get notifications, which can be passed on, and depends on the > server to unsubscribe you from it. I wouldn't want to give my jid to > all the RSS feed sites I'm subscribed to. And personally, I think > privacy is a lot more worth than bandwidth. This is a tradeoff we should face sooner or later. On one side the problem is real, on the other you already must provide an email address for commenting post blogs or for using many web 2.0 social services on the net. Moreover it is not just a bandwidth issue, but the real added value of XMPP is the possibility to tune delivery accordingly to presence or resources, thus tuning the feed to the specific context use. However each time you start using these features you also have to give away little bits of your privacy. The good thing about XMPP is that you always have control about about who you have in your roster and, if privacy in such services becomes a real problem there could be technical solutions (e.g. a local pubsub service which anonimously subscribes to remote nodes and relays them) bye -- Fabio Forno, Ph.D. Bluendo srl http://www.bluendo.com jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
