- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:15:19 +1000
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, www-tag@w3.org
My impression was that it was getting better; after the experiences of the Google prefetcher thingy, and some evangelisation, the majority of the "unsubscribe me" links in e-mails I get lead to a page with a form, not an unsafe GET. YMMV, of course. On 16/06/2009, at 3:06 AM, Dan Connolly wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 13:02 -0400, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >> [...] I just noticed the Twit >> [3] from JetBlue. It says: >> >> "Wisdom of crowds time >> What's your favorite JetBlue >> snack http://tr.im/jbsnacks: >> Blue Chips (1) or Munchies >> Mix (2) ? http://tinyurl.com/d4gjww" >> >> It's not 100% clear that votes are being tallied based on the link >> you >> click, but it seems implicit in the "wisdom of crowds" leadin. > > No, votes are cast in twitter replies. This case seems fine, to me. > >> I suppose >> that if the Google crawler finds this particular Twit, it will cast >> one >> vote for each snack, and move on. >> >> Noah >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html#safe >> [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt >> [3] http://twitter.com/JetBlue/statuses/2178983316 > > -- > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ > gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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