At 1:27 PM +1030 11/26/03, Chris wrote:
from my understanding (limited), RSS is not e-mail, it has no relationship
to e-mail. and could not be easily implemented as e-mail
You need to do more research or maybe just a bit more pondering.
The problem of spam is the application of email to a one-to-many
model for which it is ill-suited, in part because it has weak
permission and authentication infrastructure. Any sender an impose
his message on many recipients, and that is also true for your "pull"
thumbnail in which there are notifications sent. Those notifications
of available messages are as much a problem as actual messages. They
are a push from senders who have every incentive to hit as many
targets as possible without regard to how many of those targets want
it.
The relevance of RSS is that it is a better alternative medium for
the people currently (mis)using email as a one-way broadcast medium,
without any mechanism for anything like spam. Much of the effort and
hand-wringing and arguing over spam control mechanisms is really
focused on not interfering with truly solicited broadcast email, and
RSS gives those senders an alternative which does not have any
exposure to side-effects of whatever might be retrofit onto email to
stop spam.
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Bill Cole
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