Re: New URI scheme talk in RSS-land

Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> wrote: 
> / "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com> was heard to say: 
> | 2.  People who click on things are used to getting 
> |    back a page or opening a dialog.  Autosubscribing 
> |    based on a click seems like a bad idea.  It doesn't 
> 
> It would also be a violation of web architecture as GETs are supposed 
> to be safe :-) 

Can someone clarify/explain this? 

My reading of the web architecture draft is that your server MAY NOT
infer anything from the fact that my client retreived a feed
representation (e.g.: it shouldn't add me to a ('push') email list). 

That's very different from saying that my client MAY NOT then do
something with that representation once retrieved (e.g.: add it to a
local list, thereby subscribing me to a ('pull') Atom/RSS/whatever
feed). 

Rather than being a matter of web architecture, isn't that latter option
down to me, firmly in the realm of which client I choose to use and how
I choose to configure/empower it? 

Sincerely, 

    David Bruce