At 7:23 PM -0500 11/26/03, J C Lawrence imposed structure on a
stream of electrons, yielding:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:07:21 -0500
Yakov Shafranovich <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> wrote:
We are not talking about a notification system, rather we are talking
about having the *bulk* email content for things like mailing lists
delivered via RSS itself. A person would have a plug-in for his MUA
that checks periodically just like POP3 and have the option to reply
via email (Paul Judge mentioned in a different thread that these
programs already exist).
To state the obvious, this requires IP connectivity between the feed
site and the consumer, something that is frequently enough not true
currently.
True. The 2 common cases that come to my mine would be:
1. Intermittent connectivity. In this situation users would do
essentially what they do now with intermittent connectivity for
newsgroup access: connect to pull the current RSS file and connect to
pull whatever content they want or sent any comments/replies.
2. Disjoint connectivity, i.e. behind a strong firewall. In this case
the RSS updates could be proxied in the same way as web access is
proxied in such environments.
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Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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