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On Fri, 14 Apr 1995 meyer@newslink.org wrote:

> Stan:
> 
> The bottom line is:
> You might think it's a great idea to simplify things
> by delivering directly to a mailbox, but you'd be 100%
> wrong unless you chose to go almost totally non-graphical. 
Very true.  I've backed up 600 messages since friday. Just on this list.  
I hope there's nothing Important mixed in with the heap.

A more practical approach would be to send a "feed" via IRC to a client 
"Filter" which can browse content.  Keep an "archive" so that "hits" can 
be delivered via Web Feed.  Use a "Private" chat line, this will give you 
more control of the access.  The hits would be stored as "header plus url 
plus leading paragraph.  The url would show "the rest of the story".

> I'd use the Web for your graphical needs and E-mail
> (often an abbreviated version of the full product)
> for your non-graphical needs.
Absolutely.  SAs get very wierd when they see someone's mailbox growing 
to 1 gig every week because some newspaper sent them 200 GIFS.

> You'd be using technology approriate to the task instead
> of getting things completely backward.
This is why I reccomended chat.  The delay on some POP and E-mail servers 
is substantial.  If you can provide content in near-Real-Time, you have
more value as a feed source.  Talk to Dow Jones.

> Plus, what difference is there between logging on and
> downloading mail and logging on and accessing a home
> page? None, except that the latter probably would take
> LESS time.
In march '94, the Mail Server made sense.  Today web access is cheap and 
easy and you can reach lots of users.

> Damned few people have T1 lines and 24-hour hosts
> hooked up at their kitchen tables.
Which is why it is important to provide a search capability such as WAIS.

Wais by the ways stands for Wide Area Information Service.  A WAIS client 
can simaultaneously search several hundred databases (sources) at the 
same time.  A version is available under GPL, an enhanced version is 
available directly from WAIS Inc., a company started by the developers of 
the WAIS server.
	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue Apr 25 02:25:25 1995
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