Antone Roundy wrote:
On Tuesday, July 12, 2005, at 07:23 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
I think what we want to say is that “aggregators consuming this
feed should consider automatically subscribing to the referenced
feed as well,”
Automating feed subscriptions isn't something that should be done too
lightly[1]. The default behavior for an aggregator should be NOT to
do this, and aggregators should give the user the opportunity to
control this feature on a feed-by-feed basis. Some sort of
same-source policy (like we see with JavaScripts accessing the pages
they're loaded into) might be wise to help prevent abuse, but with
lots of feeds getting run through services like FeedBurner, that
would be far from sufficient.
[1]
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2005/06/13/the-case-
against-easier-feed-subscriptions/
Ah... good point. Definite room for abuse here. The user should
definitely be in control. However, I don't want to get into dictating
any particular application behavior. Rather, we could simply describe
the issues, the potential for abuse, and offer a number of recommended
approaches to dealing with it.
- James
