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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] The notorious "web interface"...

2005-12-09 by Russell Shaw

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.

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