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

[Jeff Teunissen]

Rod Barnhart wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
>> The problem with webforums is that most of the software out there makes
>> it a pain to download information. It's also a pull process which makes it
>> harder to make timely announcements to the members. The strength and limitations
>> of both are why the groups have both mailing lists and web forums. Of the
>> two the web forum is by far more popular.
> 
> 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. But for those who would answer the
> original questions as "I only have email," this would probably not be
> the case.

Email is always "push". Your _access_ to it can be "pull", if you run Windows
or anything else without a proper mailer daemon. :)