At 8:54 PM -0500 3/26/03, mathew wrote:
This goes back to the suggestion from myself and others, earlier on.
Once you've moved the mailing list traffic to an RSS-like "pull"
system, you take the next step, and move all e-mail traffic to it.
Now for someone to send you e-mail, they send you the bare URL of
their RSS feed from them to you.
Pull is a great idea, and if we can persuade mailing list operators
to offer it as a choice, that's great.
But it's not email. It doesn't have a number of the necessary
attributes for person-to-person email.
- it requires a server that is up all the time
- it requires storing outgoing email for an indefinite amount of time
- it completely the destroys the go-online, fetch, go-offline model
From a resource and operational standpoint it looks an awful lot like
running a web server.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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