Well, again, that's the publisher's choice to use Superfeedr. Complain to people who choose to syndicate their public feed through Superfeedr. Raise awareness among Superfeedr users that they are shutting out PuSH to people who aren't registered with Superfeedr.
But don't bash on Superfeedr for providing a useful public service. It's not incumbent on Superfeedr to demand that people only syndicate private feeds through them. -- Eric On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Jay Rossiter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/14/2010 10:38 PM, Eric Mill wrote: > > I'll know that I'll be adding a blacklist to my subscription client for > hubs that require authentication on public feeds. It's simply not in my > workflow to go to every new hub trying to get an account for a service that > is designed to benefit the publisher. If they go out of their way to make > using PuSH with their feeds difficult, I can only oblige them by not using > it. They and their readers lose out on the benefits they wanted to achieve. > > I think you'd be blacklisting the wrong entity. If a publisher of a > public feed chooses to use a "private hub" for PuSH delivery, instead > of some public community hub, then it's the publisher who's made that > decision. > > Since we can likely all agree that private hubs serve a valid purpose > for private feeds, you'd end up unfairly demonizing private hubs that > don't actively verify that the feeds that get submitted to them are > private. > > -- Eric > > Maybe, maybe not - it depends on the hub and the publisher. > Superfeedr's general hub (http://superfeedr.com/hubbub) requires > authentication for all subscriptions, period. It's only usable by users of > their service. i.e. a Superfeedr user can subscribe to ANY feed using > Superfeedr's hub (even one without hub tags, from my understanding), but a > non-Superfeedr user can't subscribe to ANY feeds, even though they notify > users that this is the hub to use. > > Take, for example, the Superfeedr blog feed: > http://blog.superfeedr.com/atom.xml > It publishes > > <link href="http://blog.superfeedr.com/atom.xml"; rel="self" > type="application/atom+xml"/> > <link rel="hub" href="http://superfeedr.com/hubbub"; /> > > but you can't actually use that information without a login. > > -- > Jay Rossiter | Software Engineer/System Administrator > Pioneering RSS Advertising Solutions > > [email protected] | Phone: 503.896.6187 | Fax: 503.235.2216 > Website: www.pheedo.com | RSS: www.pheedo.info/index.xml >
