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[Dave Liebreich]

Jake Savin <jake@userland.com> writes:

> It may sound strange, but that's the way it works right now. RCS needs to be
> able to send you notifications about the person you've subscribed to in
> order to maintain your notification request record.

<melodrama>
So, because I'm behind a NAT box, not only will I never know who might be
reading my instant outline, but nobody whose outline I read will know I'm
reading it?

I'll *never* be popular :-(
</melodrama>

Since this is all experimental, and when I want to use this for work I'll
use a private RCS, then it's just the price of paranoia out here on the
frontier (I read Jeremiah's essay :-)

> To make matters worse, Radio doesn't know anything about your particular NAT
> setup, so even if you configure port-forwarding on your router, the cloud
> still won't know how to reach you (because Radio can't tell it where to send
> the requests).

Or until the router learns radio-ese and mucks with the payloads
on-the-fly.  D'ya think this will get that big?  That would be neat.

> Don't worry about being confused. This stuff is all new, and we're exploring
> the interconnections, finding the sweet spots and working out the
> kinks. It's going to take some time for us to fill in the details, in large
> part because it's confusing stuff.
> 
> -Jake

I'm just happy to be along for the ride.

_Dave

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/