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Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Pull System (revisited)

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@solidmatrix.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@scconsult.com


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