Alan King wrote:
> Dave Hylands wrote:
>
>>With email, they show up in my email, and I have rules to sort them
>>into separate folders. I don't need to poll.
>
> You're not considering opening your email program, receiving, and
> looking at the folder to see if there are new messages 'polling'? It is
> simply something you are used to doing.
I start mozilla in the morning and look at it periodically thru the
day when it beeps about new messages. Absolutely no polling involved.
> For that matter, it would be
> fairly trivial to have an 'email' program that also pulled in the
> messages from a board, just like you like. Heck, it's probably out
> there, I have had the idea a time or two before but never looked really.
Web boards are redundant when there's email lists.