Fabio Forno wrote: > 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)
Yes, repeaters could help here. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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