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On Mar 18, 2004, at 11:33 PM, John Cowan wrote: >> > > Metcalfe's Law is not operating wrt communication speed, and still less > throughput. > Right. The point was that an "inferior" solution that exploits the large existing infrastructure would have a lot of intrinsic value due to the network effect. In the case we're discussing, most of the appeal of the idea of syndicating credit card statements via RSS would be the fact that millions (?) of people with an RSS aggregator could use it as soon as it was produced. A "better" pub-sub approach that required new server infrastructure and client software would have a lot of deployment to do before it would be worthwhile to enough businesses or consumers to be used.
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