On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> wrote: > What if, as a subscriber, when I receive a ping > for a feed that I don't care about anymore, > I simply reply with the word "unsubscribe" > in the body to tell the hub to get me off the list? While your proposal sounds pretty easy, it would make the PSHB specification more complex while not really adding any more capability to the system. My personal preference would be to keep the core specification as simple as possible and only increase its complexity when doing so actually delivers new capabilities.
bob wyman On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > While implementing PubSubHubbub and using it in production, I realized > that there are several situations in which I need to un-subscribe from a > feed. Per the specs, the right approach, is to send an unsubscribe request. > While this works, there could be an easier way: What if, as a subscriber, > when I receive a ping for a feed that I don't care about anymore, I simply > reply with the word "unsubscribe" in the body to tell the hub to get me off > the list? > > When I receive a ping, I have to check it out and decide what to do > with it, and that's the perfect time to decide if I want to unsubscribe. By > making it super easy to unsubscribe, I believe we'll have less pings that > get ignored because the subscriber can't be bothered to send a proper > unsubscribe request. Thoughts? > > Regards, > Waleed > >
