RE: Tombstones

["Brian Smith" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Holderness wrote:
> James M Snell wrote:
> > What I personally would like to see is an evolved form of 
> > SSE produced on the standards track by a WG.  Tombstones
> > would be covered as part of that activity.
> 
> FWIW I'm not interested in anything more complicated than 
> your tombstone proposal from last year. I just want a simple 
> way to mark an item in a feed as deleted.
> 
> I was considering implementing something based on your last 
> draft, even if only for personal use. It would be preferable 
> if there was a real spec to work from, but there's no way I 
> would implement anything as complicated as SSE when all I 
> want to do is delete spam.

How do you suggest dealing with inappropriate data in the atom:id
element? Examples:

 <x:deleted
id='http://example.org/blog/i-am-so-high-at-work-right-now'/>
 <x:deleted
id='http://example.org/blog/im-getting-divorced-and-marrying-my-secretar
y'/>
 <x:deleted id='http://engizmet.org/{embargoed-iphone-news-item}'/>

(I've seen very similar entries posted and then deleted from actual
feeds.)

This still discloses a significant amount of information that the feed
author doesn't want disclosed after deleting the entry, and this kind of
disclosure is something that a non-technical blogger would not expect.
It would be better to avoid sending the tombstones to clients that
hadn't received the entries.

- Brian