RT list: Push, Pull, and New Year wishes for the Relevance List

The push-pull distinction on the Internet:

There are push and pull internet providers of contents. A list is a push
provider: it pushes its contents into the email inbox of its subscribers. A
blog is a pull provider: individuals - even registered readers - pull the
blog's content at their leisure.

Wishes:

1) For the list as a whole: That it should push only the kind and amount of
contents that the subscribers subscribed for, i.e. information about
publications and events and occasional content queries of clear relevance to
RT pragmatics that most of us would be sorry to miss or at least find
appropriate to receive.

2) For J.L. Speranza: That in 2010 he should have his very own blog (Why not
"The Grice Club"?) and post there his rich and often very interesting
contributions that many of us would then gladly pull even if few of us enjoy
seeing them pushed one after another into our mail boxes through the
relevance list. Incidentally, for those who want to, a blog can be turned
into a push provider by subscribing to its RSS feed.

Oh, and being already at it, a Happy New Year to all!
Received on Thu Dec 31 21:07:33 2009