On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:48, Kee Hinckley wrote:
At 7:27 PM -0500 3/29/03, mathew wrote:
But it's not email. It doesn't have a number of the necessary
attributes for person-to-person email.
I don't think email-pull is a silver bullet, but it is a handy lead
pellet. Enough lead pellets will kill the beast just as well as a
single silver bullet.
When I started this thread, I was *not* proposing that something
RSS-like be a *replacement* for SMTP delivery, but an *addition* to SMTP
delivery.
The idea would not be to poll everyone -- your grandmother, your niece,
your old college roommate -- every ten seconds, but to poll a limited
number of addresses infrequently. I had in mind things like CNET
newsletters, affiliate programs, etc.
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