Would this be solved by using a 'smart, aggregating hub generating a
synthetic feed', and if so does it need to be in the protocol?



On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM, igrigorik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This was discussed briefly before [1], but would like to bring up the
> firehose use case once again within the context of PSHB.
>
> Use case: it would be great if the spec allowed subscribing to _all_
> new content seen by the hub. For example, blogger supports PSHB, but
> short of crawling for all of the blogger feeds, there is no way to get
> the full content stream.
>
> There are a few things that would have to be resolved:
>  - Spam. Just as with the ping servers, how do we protect the hub from
> becoming a spam distributor? Thoughts?
>  - Would have to define the subscription mechanics / protocol. Even if
> this is an optional extension to the protocol that select hubs could
> implement. (Though, of course, I'd love to see it on the already
> deployed hubs).
>
> What else?
>
> [1] 
> http://groups.google.com/group/pubsubhubbub/browse_thread/thread/7f285c23f3e361ac/690e358173c83252
>
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> Ilya Grigorik
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