On Mar 7, 2004, at 23:09, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On Sunday 07 March 2004 14:50, Patrice Neff wrote:
Timwi timwi@gmx.net writes:
Some people will put such a hashed URL into a public RSS reader (e.g. LiveJournal) and then complain that other people can reed their feed. [snip]
[snip] I'm thinking about a single valid RSS item saying that the user could not be authenticated and explaining the fact, that a new URL must be used after every edit.
I don't think that's a good idea. But more information could be added that rarely or never changes and is known to user only, for example, date of account creation (if it is known) and user's preferences.
This seems like an impractical road with major usability problems.
It's been suggested in the past to allow users to mark their watchlists as public, so for instance someone could go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist/Brion_VIBBER to see my watchlist (if I marked it as public). A public watchlist could then also be syndicated as RSS.
That's clean and simple: opt-in, so you're aware that your watchlist isn't 100% private, and we don't have to worry about constructing walls and barriers to keep people from accidentally letting it slip out (or get in themselves!)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)