Re: pull mail with notifications, was Thinking outside the box - send envelope first

On 3/17/13 12:33 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> Haven't you ever wondered why nobody has ever done the obvious hack to
>> send people a message to tell them to look for updates in an RSS feed,
>> rather than polling the feed?  That's why.
>>
>>



No, because it never occurred to me that that would be valuable. But I 
also know that the "send people a message to look" part must, in order 
to be narrow enough to be sustained, also is likely to make room for 
sending a different sort of message, or a different kind of link, or an 
NNTP feed instead of an RSS feed, or something equally useful.