Bill Pease wrote:
>Email is being abused as a broadcast medium. By deprecating all mass
>mailings, and going RSS (i.e. pull feeds), we will cut the rug out from
>under the feet of so-called "legitimate bulk e-mailers". Such a thing
>will no longer exist by definition. They will stick out like sore
>thumbs. Legitimate communities of interest can use RSS or internal
>usenet feeds or web-bords or whatever.
To recommend that "legitimate communities of interest" abandon their
current communication practices and switch to a distribution mechanism
that has virtually no market penetration seems as extreme to me as
attempting to redesign SMTP from the ground up to cure the spam problem.
RSS feeds have a long way to go before legitimate email publishers (such
as all of my company's clients - member-based organizations like
AFL-CIO, Public Broadcasting System, American Red Cross - would be
willing to abandon push email for pull news aggregators.
Would email publishers be willing to pursue the "pull" approach to the
extend that they are willing to sit down and work out the different
issues involved? Or is "pull" currently a "non-starter" in those
communities?
Yakov
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
"Why are both drug addicts and computer aficionados both called
users?" (Clifford Stoll)
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