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Re: Tombstones


Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

* Bill de hOra <bill@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-01-01 23:55]:

1: If it doesn't have a permalink (or a link at all), it's not
on the web; in all seriousness, why do we care about it?


Doesn’t matter. I preemptively pointed that out just to say that
even if you wanted to propose that feed readers poll every
permalink on every feed poll (), that wouldn’t even work.


2: why does it matter, the difference between falling off the
bottom and being deleted?


’Cause the original use case here is comments feed and comment
spam that slipped through.
That honestly doesn't explain it. The comment was in the feed, then it was not. Why do you need to say why it's not there anymore? 



And that reminds that 401 is further useless, because the
permalink of such Entries is distinguished from the blog post
permalink only through a fragment identifier, so they have no
public identity in HTTP separate from the blog post itself.


Right, there is a lot of stupid blog code about.


Sorry, 401 doesn’t cut it. Communicating deletion requires the
Atom ID, not the permalink, and a timestamp, and that’s all that
should be required, which disqualifies the use of atom:entry as
the vehicle.


"disqualifies"  - sorry, I'm not convinced.

cheers
Bill