Library and academic interest in "push" technology?

[Steve Hooley!]

        Absolutely! Many large systems have banned PointCast because it's a
bandwidth hog - plus you might as well have CNN going on a tv beause of the
distraction. Now, if it was WEB4LIB being updated . . . .
At 06:57 AM 4/3/97 -0800, you wrote:
>I have a slightly perifferal response to this thought provoking topic.
>While working on a contract recently I encountered a serious technical
>pitfall to these recently popular push technologies. A government
>department I was working with had just outfitted all of its staff with new
>desktop computers, all of which came with the PointCast installer on their
>hard drives. It was not very long until a significant portion of the staff
>had PointCast updating news reports several times an hour, and the
>performance of both their LAN and their Internet/intranet declined
>noticeably. Apparently, a memo was issued a few days ago banning the use of
>PointCast by all except those who can demonstrate a work related need for
>it.
>
>- Chris Hammond-Thrasher
>
>_________________________________________
>Christopher John Hammond-Thrasher
>School of Library and Information Studies
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
>email: cthrashe at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
>URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cthrashe
>phone/fax: 403.433.3677
>
>
>
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