Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Migration from Mailing Lists to Discussion Forums

From: Ross Wm. Rader (ross@tucows.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 18:13:10 EST


On 1/18/2005 4:36 PM Dave Warren noted that:

> Slightly off topic, anybody else read any of the various "RSS is
> crushing my server" articles recently? There is a reason why infrequent
> or unpredictable updates should be pushed rather then pulled.

How is the polling mechanism that most aggregators and NNTP clients use
any different than the polling mechanism that most POP clients use?

This is an honest question - I'm having a hard time sorting out pull
from push in this conversation because on my desktop, these are all
request based transactions. i.e. "Whaddya got for me?"

-- 
Regards,

-rwr

"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." - Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)



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