On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 06:16 PM, Kee Hinckley wrote:
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.
No, but it solves THAT problem nicely. I better be careful, or I'll use
the words "hammer" and "nails" soon. and it helps solve some of the
e-mail problems, becaues the more you can take this kind of content out
of the email stream, the easier it is to focus on other issues.
Effectively, moving this stuff to RSS would whitelist it for us, which
simplifies the problem we're trying to solve.
It doesn't have a number of the necessary attributes for
person-to-person email.
not intended to. it's a one to many solution. but a lot of email IS one
to many.
- it requires a server that is up all the time
not really. Good RSS readers will retry over time. It needs a server
that's moderately well connect and moderately useful, but it'd work
nicely over a dialup for personal stuff.
- it requires storing outgoing email for an indefinite amount of time
why? RSS generally doesn't do that. it stores the last "N".
- 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.
well, that's because you're running a web server.
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