7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
12:45 p.m.
On Mar 7 2005, 8:58, John Foust wrote:
Web forums are not friendly to some browsers. They're also slow. Mail
delivery is indeed push, not pull; by the time it gets to local
delivery reading is just opening a local file, which is rather
different than downloading a page on a server at the same time as
umpteen other people. And it's a damned sight easier to search, sort
and filter a mailbox (local, or IMAP) than a web page.
I'm with Cameron, Sellam, and Jules. And probably a few other people
who wouldn't want to use web technology because they have to be online
at the time they are reading, all the time they're reading. Not
friendly to dialup users.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
At 08:44 AM 3/7/2005, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>Any advantage it might yield over the vagaries of SMTP has little to
do with
>its perceived ease of use or accessibility.
I'm forced to use web
boards for
>some esoteric topics, but I get enough vintage
computing on Usenet
and other
mailing lists,
so I wouldn't make the jump. I don't like pull media.
(Scratching head: Web forums not easy to use or accessible?
Classic computing not esoteric? Mail reading (as opposed to
delivery) is push, not pull?)