Thanks for your replies--short of reconvening the standards boards--any 
suggestions? I tried deleting my wordpress cache. 

On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 12:16:26 PM UTC-4, Julien wrote:
>
> Sorry Bob, you're right. It's more a could than a should :) 
> My point was that there are many things that can break in the whole 
> process which would prevent the deletion 
> from being reflected. 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Bob Wyman <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Julien Genestoux 
> > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> I'm afraid this is going to be something that needs to be addressed 
> >> with Flipboard and Feedly. 
> >> 
> >> In theory, Atom has "thumbstones" for deleted content, and in theory, 
> >> these should be propagated by 
> >> the hubs, and in theory the publishers should delete the corresponding 
> >> entries. 
> > 
> > It is important to recognize that the receiver of an Atom Tombstone is 
> under 
> > no obligation to do anything. One's publication of data on the Internet 
> must 
> > never be seen as obligating another to act in the absence of some prior 
> > agreement to do so. Thus, it is not correct to say that a receiver of a 
> > tombstone "should delete the corresponding entries."  RFC 6721  wisely 
> and 
> > explicitly states: 
> >> 
> >> Publishers of feeds containing at:deleted-entry elements should note 
> that 
> >> the at:deleted-entry element is advisory in nature only, and it may be 
> >> ignored by Atom Processors. The presence of an at:deleted-entry element 
> does 
> >> not guarantee that the atom:entry to which it is referring will no 
> longer be 
> >> available. For example, if an entry was published to a feed document 
> that 
> >> was published and processed yesterday by an aggregator application, and 
> then 
> >> is subsequently deleted today with a corresponding at:deleted-entry 
> element 
> >> added to the feed as a signal that the entry was deleted, there is no 
> >> guarantee that the aggregator application will pay any attention to the 
> >> at:deleted-entry element during subsequent processing operations. 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> Now, as you've guessed, somewhere in that theory, something broke and 
> >> the only way to get the content 
> >> deleted is to reach out to both Feedly and Flipboard. 
> >> 
> >> Thanks, 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Robert Kennedy 
> >> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
>
> >> wrote: 
> >> > We are using pubsubhubbub on wordpress. We deleted some text blogs, 
> but 
> >> > they 
> >> > are still showing up in our feeds to Flipboard and Feedly. Any 
> >> > suggestions 
> >> > on how to fix? 
> >> > 
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