Anonymous Subscriptions (Pull Subscriptions)

It is possible to have “anonymous” subscriptions. An anonymous subscription is a special type of pull subscription that can be used in the following circumstances:

• When you are publishing data to the Internet

• When you have a huge number of subscribers

• When you don’t want the overhead of maintaining extra information at the publisher or distributor

• When all the rules of your pull subscriptions apply to all your anonymous subscribers

Normally, information about all the subscribers, including performance data, is stored on the distribution server. Therefore, if you have a large number of subscribers or you do not want to track detailed information about the subscribers, you might want to allow ...

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