[development] Use revisions to replace previews

[FGM]

Both issues could be addresses by a cron-generated purge on saved previews
older than a given time limit, like 1 hour. That way, neither abandoned
previews nor spam would create "permanent" junk.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dries Buytaert" <dries.buytaert at gmail.com>
To: <development at drupal.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [development] Use revisions to replace previews


> [...] I don't finish everything that I start writing so every once
> in a while, I abandon the post in which case the previews and the
> node ID would still be in the database?  That said, I'm not opposed
> to an auto-save feature or a 'Save as draft' feature.  Except that it
> should somehow align better with my mental model.
>
> Something else to consider -- spammers will often try to submit spam
> to your site. Even if they don't make it through, they might insert
> permanent junk in your database.
>
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
>
>