RE: Selfish Feeds...

2005-05-06 Thread Bob Wyman
the widely divergent personal and partial views that are obvious in many our conversations today... bob wyman

RE: Autodiscovery, real-world examples

2005-05-05 Thread Bob Wyman
reading this feed. Read the Atom 1.0 feed instead... bob wyman

Atom on portable wireless device (was: RE: Atom feed refresh rates)

2005-05-04 Thread Bob Wyman
of 30 minutes which is implied by a polling frequency of 1 hour. You've written on your blog that you want to see more 304 responses. Well, I would suggest that what you *really* should want is more 226 responses -- 226 is the success code for an RFC3229+feed GET operation. bob

http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-04 Thread Bob Wyman
is not a requirement of the language, but it is a clear derivative of it. Basically, you dont have to update atom:updated unless you think it makes sense OR you are publishing to a feed that already has an entry with the same atom:id as the atom:id of the entry you are currently publishing. bob wyman

FYI: More on duplicates in feeds: DoubleClick does ads the WRONG way!

2005-05-02 Thread Bob Wyman
For yet another reason why aggregators deliver up duplicate entries, See: http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2005/05/rss_ads_done_th.html Hopefully, Atom V1.0 will make it easier for us to isolate our users from the impact of poorly designed advertising programs... bob wyman

Dynamic Content Flagging (was: RE: FYI: More on duplicates in feeds: DoubleClick does ads the WRONG way!)

2005-05-02 Thread Bob Wyman
, then comparison code would know what bits to ignore -- whether or not they were ad related. span dynamic The time of day is: 5:25pm EST. /span bob wyman

RE: PaceDuplicateIDWithSource

2005-05-02 Thread Bob Wyman
going on. bob wyman

RE: PaceDuplicateIDWithSource

2005-05-02 Thread Bob Wyman
from which a feed is actually read. I would much prefer if the *real* entry id was built from the concatenation of the URI of the source feed, as identified in a link element (with rel=self) and the atom:id of the entry. bob wyman

RE: PaceExplainDuplicateIds

2005-04-30 Thread Bob Wyman
atom id. The point of the require source language is not to remove the requirement for uniqueness but rather to provide a more useful way of doing cross-feed determination of uniqueness. bob wyman

PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bob Wyman
be accepted and the specification revised. bob wyman

RE: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bob Wyman
in the claimed source. We may publish the suspect entry with a new id or we may simply discard the suspect entry. What do you suggest? Any ideas you may have for handling these cases would be appreciated. bob wyman

RE: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bob Wyman
that are problematic. bob wyman

RE: Comments on atompub-format-08 (Modified by Tim Bray)

2005-04-25 Thread Bob Wyman
before! bob wyman

Placeholder alternate links (was: RE: Issues with draft -08, Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-format-08.txt)

2005-04-25 Thread Bob Wyman
'/ modified2005-04-25T02:20:56-04:00/modified author namePubSub Feed Generator/name /author ps:update-count369/ps:update-count ps:subidd9/e6/4eb045b8ddaf1923b44b049753/ps:subid title![CDATA[PubSub: Topix]]/title bob wyman

Advertising not-yet-existent files... (was Re: Comments on atompub-format-08 (Modified by Tim Bray))

2005-04-24 Thread Bob Wyman
to the specification... bob wyman [1] http://www.pubsub.com/earthquakes.php [2] http://www.pubsub.com/downloads.php

RE: NoIndex, again

2005-04-20 Thread Bob Wyman
the syndication systems does not apply once the content is removed from the system. (Note: This may be a *very* important point... but is one for the lawyers, not us mere mortals.) bob wyman

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-19 Thread Bob Wyman
atom:feed elements have identical atom:id values yet only one of them has an atom:source element with a rel value of self, that element which contains the atom:source element with rel value of self SHOULD be preferred over the other. bob wyman

RE: call for a vote - was: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-19 Thread Bob Wyman
at the language can figure out how to write this into the spec. Note: At PubSub, we expect to ensure that every entry we publish once we move to Atom V1.0 will contain an atom:source with a self link. bob wyman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
to be inserted into old Atom feeds to allow the transition to the new atom as well as define extensions to the various flavors of RSS. If we can implement this minor extension, we may see many fewer duplicate feeds being consumed and thus fewer duplicate entries. Comments? bob

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
but now decided to switch to an Atom feed, how would the aggregators discover that this was your intention without causing a break in their ability to process your posts? bob wyman -Original Message- From: Robert Sayre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 1:44

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
content that we have available to us. I'm not sure they'd pay attention to feed links either I *guarantee* you that if we had an accepted way to address this in feeds, PubSub *would* pay careful attention to it. bob wyman

Spaces supports slash:comments. Result = Duplicates Galore!

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
to the slash:comments element? If so, are there other elements that should be ignored? Now, Spaces only publishes RSS feeds... However, if similar atom extensions were to be defined, the problem would appear with Atom feeds as well. bob wyman [1] http://spaces.msn.com/members/carnage4life

RE: Spaces supports slash:comments. Result = Duplicates Galore!

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
note. i.e. Entries will be considered duplicates if Shrook uses an adaptive subset that means that if one element is unreliable it uses the others. Can you describe your algorithm? What do you consider unreliable to mean? bob wyman

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
...). (Yes, I know it probably should be application/xml and would ideally be specific as to type since we know it is RSS or Atom, etc. But, that's not the point of this discussion.). bob wyman

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
include full category data in the entries they publish rather than publishing entries into specialized feeds as the way to indicate category. bob wyman

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we have duplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
(and there is a great deal of it) is the problem of some other element to handle. bob wyman

RE: One reason we have duplicates entries is that we haveduplicate feeds...

2005-04-07 Thread Bob Wyman
Eric Scheid wrote: On 8/4/05 6:17 AM, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The proposal I made relies on a feed making statements only about itself. In my proposal, a feed can only say: I contain copies of these other feeds. I am a secondary feed. How does this prevent DOS attacks? If I could

RE: copyright, Creative Commons, and DRM in Atom/RSS

2005-03-25 Thread Bob Wyman
start expiring. So, in summary, let's not go down the DRM path. It is a snake pit from which no good will come. Also, please see my post about Creative Commons at: http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2005/03/lazyweb_query_a.html bob wyman

RE: copyright, Creative Commons, and DRM in Atom/RSS

2005-03-25 Thread Bob Wyman
ccess to or use of data. Because this point is a bit subtle, were likely to have all sorts of people thinking that providing support for Creative Commons does, in fact, give them the ability to restrict the use of their data bob wyman

RE: link rel=link type=????/

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Wyman
that it is no longer required. bob wyman

FW: [rss-media] Coexistence with Atom ?

2005-02-22 Thread Bob Wyman
The following message was on the RSS-Media group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/ It seems reasonable to expect that users will expect that Atom and RSS-Media will, in fact, be used in concert in the future. From: ecomputerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-20 Thread Bob Wyman
, the best an intermediary can do is keep track of date_entry_was_found. However, this can cause problems since entries can exist in multiple feeds. Thus, the order in which the feeds are read can cause old entries to over-write newer ones. bob wyman

RE: PaceRepeatIdInDocument solution

2005-02-19 Thread Bob Wyman
of the maintain atom:id rule, etc. Forbidding repeated ids causes damage. History shows, however, that allowing repeated ids is benign. bob wyman

RE: PaceHeadless

2005-02-08 Thread Bob Wyman
feeds, etc. will come to the same conclusion in time. Have a good day. I'm sure you'll all be pleased to know that I won't be bothering you about this in the next few days. Do what you will... bob wyman

RE: PaceArchiveDocument posted

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Wyman
for an entry was the concatenation of atom:id + (atom:revision OR atom:modified), then we would no longer require the archive document type at all... But, I won't go there... bob wyman

RE: BAG Question: What is a feed? Sliding-Window or Current-State?

2005-02-07 Thread Bob Wyman
. Similarly, the prohibition against multiple instances of an atom:id means that we can't implement a show me all versions feature using Atom as the packaging format for the results. (No, we're not planning to do this. But, it would be good to be able to do it.) bob wyman [1] http

RE: Entry order

2005-02-05 Thread Bob Wyman
compromises the utility of aggregation and search mechanisms. This should not be tolerated. bob wyman

RE: Entry order

2005-02-05 Thread Bob Wyman
should be specified *within* entries, not implied or derived from the context within which those entries are found. It's about the Entries, Stupid! bob wyman

RE: PaceArchiveDocument posted

2005-02-05 Thread Bob Wyman
-1. The use cases for archiving have not been well defined or well discussed on this list. It is, I believe, inappropriate and unwise to try to rush through something this major at the last moment before a pending Last Call. bob wyman

RE: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bob Wyman
want to see is the most recent state of the entry. To provide this, we need a way to link together the various versions or states of the entry -- that is done with atom:id. Priority of the versions is determined using atom:modified... bob wyman

RE: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bob Wyman
Clearly, I meant atom:updated not atom:modified... My apologies for the slip. bob wyman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Bray Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Mark Nottingham'; 'Paul

Don't mess with HeadInEntry!

2005-02-04 Thread Bob Wyman
that Atom use will provide virtually no advantage to anyone who is building aggregated feeds. bob wyman

CAP over Atom (PubSub Common Alerting Protocol Earthquake Feeds...)

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Wyman
service that I recently mentioned on this list. We will be publishing both raw Earthquake messages/feeds as well as CAP messages/feed in the future. These two formats are targeted at different audiences. Your comments and/or suggestions would be appreciated. bob wyman

RE: On organization and abstraction

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Wyman
like Lisp. As an ex-Visual Basic Product Manager, I think this would be a good idea! Let's keep it simple and NOT accept PaceAggregationDocument. (Note to reader: Visual Basic .NET is .NOT Visual Basic... bob wyman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: Entry order

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Wyman
should NOT be significant. This is, I think, a very, very important point to make. bob wyman

RE: PaceAggregationDocument (was: On organization andabstraction)

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Wyman
that which we can not do... bob wyman

RE: atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Bob Wyman
I thought atom:host was made redundant by the combination of HeadInEntry and FeedLink... bob wyman

RE: PaceSimpleLanguageTagging status

2005-01-25 Thread Bob Wyman
. That's the way the real world works. bob wyman

RE: Please Review: Dissemination of Earthquake / Tsunami data via Atom

2005-01-17 Thread Bob Wyman
to a standard Entry Retracted page that is shared by all retracted entries? (i.e. http://example.com/no_such_page.html ) bob wyman

RE: PaceFeedRecursive

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Wyman
repetition of feed meta data in head/ elements is probably acceptable. I may have forgotten some of the arguments, but this should provide a good refresher and/or catch-up on the basic issues... bob wyman

RE: Please Review: Dissemination of Earthquake / Tsunami data via Atom

2005-01-10 Thread Bob Wyman
assistance. My hope is that well be able to use Atom to make a real contribution to making the world just a bit safer bob wyman

RE: Signatures in feeds of Aggregated Entry Documents

2005-01-09 Thread Bob Wyman
then you could add any content you wanted without interfering with the signature mechanism. Note: A signature on an Atom feed should *not* contain the XPath above. bob wyman [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-core-20020212/#sec-XPath [2] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg09604

Please Review: Dissemination of Earthquake / Tsunami data via Atom

2005-01-08 Thread Bob Wyman
forward to your comments and assistance in getting this system working hopefully, long before the next disaster in which it might be useful. bob wyman Note: The message below was published long after the original event. The reason for the delay is that this message adds to information previously

RE: The Atom Format end-game (PICS)??

2005-01-08 Thread Bob Wyman
... bob wyman [1] http://www.w3.org/PICS/

RE: Atom Notification Protocol Published

2004-12-17 Thread Bob Wyman
in existence requires elements of atom:head when handling entries. I can imagine very few applications (other than closed ones) that could make use of atom:entries that do not contain atom:head elements and are not themselves enclosed in atom:feeds. bob wyman

Need to work on extensibility of Atom... Nature folk speak in D-Lib

2004-12-15 Thread Bob Wyman
in the future? If we don't finish Atom and get the extensibility questions resolved, it is certain that they will stick to RSS V1.0. bob wyman [1] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/hammond/12hammond.html

RE: Priorities in Atom?

2004-12-08 Thread Bob Wyman
=classificationpolitics/prop prop name=priorityvery_high/prop Let's focus on the mechanism for communicating properties rather then the specific properties that are to be communicated. bob wyman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

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