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 > > -------- > Ilya Grigorik > postrank.com
