Comments on: RSS Email Flunks The (Law) Suit Test http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/11/02/email_aacjifjcfh_dg/ Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Editor http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/11/02/email_aacjifjcfh_dg/#comment-122 Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:43:37 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/11/02/email_aacjifjcfh_dg/#comment-122 Subscribing to RSS feeds is not difficult. Expecting both sides of every correspondent relationship to maintain them for unfettered communcation is. <br> <br> Using today's off-the-shelf software, you can easily set up your own white-list without demanding that your correspondents do anything at all.<br> <br> If you want them to jump through more hoops, you can always add Challenge/Response.<br> <br> Meanwhile, those who need to keep lines of communication more open can simply sit back and let the email flow.<br> <br> Let's be clear. We absolutely, positively love RSS. We just can't see any long term positives it brings to the messaging stream... Yet. Subscribing to RSS feeds is not difficult. Expecting both sides of every correspondent relationship to maintain them for unfettered communcation is.

Using today’s off-the-shelf software, you can easily set up your own white-list without demanding that your correspondents do anything at all.

If you want them to jump through more hoops, you can always add Challenge/Response.

Meanwhile, those who need to keep lines of communication more open can simply sit back and let the email flow.

Let’s be clear. We absolutely, positively love RSS. We just can’t see any long term positives it brings to the messaging stream… Yet.

]]> by: Tim http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/11/02/email_aacjifjcfh_dg/#comment-121 Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:28:26 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/11/02/email_aacjifjcfh_dg/#comment-121 I'm not sure where the author gets his ideas that subscribing and unsubscribing to RSS feeds is a difficult task.<br> <br> In Mozilla, it's as simple as clicking on the RSS buttons that show up on pages that are flagged with RSS feeds. Yahoo! provides a personalized MyYahoo service whereby you can simply copy & paste the URL of the RSS feed into a box. Most other RSS aggregators function similarly. Easy to add. Removing a feed that is spamming you (or otherwise no longer of interest) is usually as simple as pressing [delete], clicking on the "delete this feed" icon, or dragging the feed to a "trashcan" location. It's far more trouble to subscribe and unsubscribe to mailing lists than to RSS feeds. I’m not sure where the author gets his ideas that subscribing and unsubscribing to RSS feeds is a difficult task.

In Mozilla, it’s as simple as clicking on the RSS buttons that show up on pages that are flagged with RSS feeds. Yahoo! provides a personalized MyYahoo service whereby you can simply copy & paste the URL of the RSS feed into a box. Most other RSS aggregators function similarly. Easy to add. Removing a feed that is spamming you (or otherwise no longer of interest) is usually as simple as pressing [delete], clicking on the “delete this feed” icon, or dragging the feed to a “trashcan” location. It’s far more trouble to subscribe and unsubscribe to mailing lists than to RSS feeds.

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