* James Holderness <j4_james@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-12-07 03:55]:
Steven Lees wrote:
On the initial sync of a feed, most sync-aware clients will
still want to ask for the feed without tombstones, so that
they can just get the non-deleted items.
I wouldn't think that's worth the effort. Tombstones should be
small enough and infrequent enough that I wouldn't care about
getting them on an initial sync.
It’s pointless either way. You might avoid receiving a bunch of
irrelevant tombstones on the first fetch – only to end up getting
them all on your second fetch.
You could invest somewhat significant extra complexity to make it
actually work… all so you can avoid a handful of tombstones for a
short period after subscribing to a feed. Ahem.
Regards,
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