* Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-18 23:30]: > This is one of the unanswered questions that I left out of > scope. The consumer can examine the previous archive's URI and > decide as to whether it's seen it or not before, and therefore > avoid fetching it if it already has seen it. However, in this > approach, it won't see changes that are made in the archive > (e.g., if a revision -- even a spelling correction -- is made > to an old entry); to do that it either has to walk back the > *entire* archive each time, or the feed has to publish all > changes -- even to old entries -- at the head of the feed.
These are the kinds of things my “hub archive feed” situation was supposed to address. Because the links are all in one place, the consumer only has to suck down one document in order to be informed of all archive feeds and being able to decide which ones he wants to re-/get. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
