Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Authorizing for partial control

2010-09-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Yes, that's why one does the right thing *and* has an attorney. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Papa.Coen papa.c...@gmail.com: Of course, Twitter is not a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Authorizing for partial control

2010-09-20 Thread Abraham Williams
Any models consisting of more then three levels of permission is too complicated. Read, write, and delete are the levels of permission in their most pure form. Delete is important because otherwise every single application that just needs to post a tweet can delete *all* of you data with a few

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Authorizing for partial control

2010-09-20 Thread Scott Wilcox
Agreed completely. I understand why people want scope for permissions ala Facebook, but I quite like the way Twitter is. The whole big issue here is that people seem to think DM's are a sacred medium for secure communication when that simply isn't the case. A DM is just a normal tweet directed