At 10:03 PM -0800 3/26/03, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
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.
I don't disagree. However there have been a number of proposals made
to this list that assumed it would be a drop-in replacement for all
email.
- 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.
Not for the average end-user. For someone who was conscious that
they were running a service, and made an effort to be online a
reasonable amount of the time, yes. We've had this discussion on a
previous thread wrt a proposal to make email end-to-end instead of
store and forward.
- it requires storing outgoing email for an indefinite amount of time
why? RSS generally doesn't do that. it stores the last "N".
True, but RSS also usually points at a web server that has the rest
of the messages. Again--primarily an issue if you are trying to
replace N to N, not so much for 1 to 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.
Precisely. Again, primarily an issue only if you are trying to
replace something other than a mailing list.
--
Kee Hinckley
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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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