E-mail Newsletters Switching To RSS

Posted by timothy on Monday September 1, 2003 @02:13PM from the click-here-to-unsubscribe-222n8dd67 dept.

prostoalex writes "The wide spread of unsolicited e-mails is leading publishers and site owners towards subscription-based RSS, the InternetNews.com article says. Chris Pirillo from LockerGnome is quoted saying that people just do not subscribe to free e-mail newsletters anymore, making a broad assumption that anyone offering them would be a spammer. This short article on About.com also argues for the RSS as preferred format for newsletters, site headlines and all sorts of updates that were e-mailed to customers before."

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Re:Somewhat good. by FooAtWFU · 2003-09-01 14:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

> the Spammers will easily have enough resources to learn how to generate false reports. Can RSS be digitally signed?

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Geek Handwriting... by The+Lord+of+Chaos · 2003-09-01 15:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

My handwriting was bad before I got a computer and its been getting worse since. Damnit, I was hoping in the future I'd never have to hand-write anything again.