Bill Cole wrote:
At 3:43 PM -0500 11/26/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
Bill Cole wrote:
At 5:04 PM +0000 11/26/03, Bruce Stephens wrote:
Bill Cole <asrg(_at_)billmail(_dot_)scconsult(_dot_)com> writes:
....
If complete consent control can be created in email, with the sender
in charge at all times, then that would solve spam, since the sender
must actively subscribe to something to receive it. That is one of the
motiviations behind pull systems, where a hybrid approach of push and
pull is used.
I think that pull systems are less 'email' the more purely they follow
'pull' models. The example of the blogging universe predominantly using
RSS as the means of content providers getting material to readers rather
than the traditional mailing list with all of its clunkiness is a good
sign.
Email may be the 'killer app' of the Internet that can be made to do
everything, but it is not designed to do everything well, and it may
simply be time to start narrowing what email is allowed to do in order
to push the traffic into more suitable media: many-way discussions to
NNTP, serial broadcast to RSS.
Can we connect the two: can mailing lists be distributed via RSS, with
an ability to receive them in an MUA, and ability to respond to them via
email.
Yakov
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