DontSyndicate Pace

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

Pardon for not announcing sooner; my ISP decided that imc.org was on 
some spamcop list, so I got un-subbed, so I re-subbed under my Sun 
address.
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I've been unhappy for some time about the multipart/alternative 
construct in the current syntax & protocol.  Among other things, I'd 
like to use Atom to post a picture to my blog, but then I want to 
reference the picture from an ordinary HTML post rather than have it 
show up itself in the syndication feed.  So I proposed adding 
syndicate="true|false" to <atom:entry>, so that you can do 
non-syndicated posts (I assume this would be used mostly in POSTS to 
the feed rather than GETS of it).

I'm trying to make something that is (a) simpler, (b) more 
web-friendly, and (c) fits better with the way posts are naturally 
constructed.

If this works, I think it removes most of the use-cases for

<content type="multipart/alternative">

so I nuked that as part of the proposal, which is at 
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceDontSyndicate

More remarks on my blog at  
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/04/16/HowToPost  -Tim