On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:03:31 -0800
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(_at_)plaidworks(_dot_)com> wrote:
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.
Additionally now that we're inventing whole new transports and formats
there's also nothing to say that the RSS feed wouldn't be available via
BitTorrent or a distributed gnutella-like protocol, thus requiring very
little in the way of connectivity of the original server. Heck, all we
have to do is add conversational supports and we have NNTP redux.
</cynic>
- it requires storing outgoing email for an indefinite amount of time
why? RSS generally doesn't do that. it stores the last "N".
ObNote: This assumes that the RSS feed is statically generated and not
the result of a (complex) query. Neither need be true (and neither is
true in the case of systems I'm currently building).
- 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.
Gack!
</cynic dammit>
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