At 10:58 PM 4/30/03 -0400, waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org wrote:
It should possible to set up a script to make a PC (Windows/Max/Linux)
poll a POP server once a day or once a week, etc. Has anyone ever tried
writing up a script and simply throwing announcements on a central POP
server. The subscribers' machine would poll the central POP server as
required. This solves the permission problem, because the subscriber is
doing the pulling. No changes required to SMTP, for the simple reason
that SMTP is totally bypassed.
I've experimented with many alternative message systems to email,
some of which used pull, though not quite the way you describe.
It's not clear to me that spam goes away just because it's pull,
though it might make it easier to track down the (ir)responsible.
For example, Suppose you got an email that said;
"You have a message from bob(_at_)example(_dot_)com waiting for you at
http://example.com/bob.message.127";.
When go to the web page, it's an ad for wonder widgets.
In that case, I think most would still classify it as spam
even though you have to go to a web site and "pull" the message.
To put it another way;
What are the benefits of a pull system?
What are are the costs?
Scott Nelson <scott(_at_)spamwolf(_dot_)com>
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