[Coco] CoCoList and the Web, was Re: CoCoList Survey on email but no web browser access CoCo users.

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:14:06AM -0400, Rod Barnhart wrote:

> As James Daggett pointed out, email is also a "pull" process as far as
> the client is concerned. Many of us are on broadband and simply open
> our email clients and have it polling the servers every 10 minutes or
> so, so it might look otherwise.

That is a technical detail -- "pull"ing data from the server that
has it is unavoidable.  By that standard, those that would claim that
RSS is a "push" model would be wrong as well.  In any case, email is
"push"ed to your email server.  In many cases, that server is "closer"
to you than any given web site.

The point of "push" versus "pull" is about how hard you have to try
to get the data.  With email, data "comes" to you from a variety of
sources and you access it in one place (e.g. your Inbox).  With the
web, you have to direct your browser to go to individual sites and
collate that information on your own.

John
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