some company's completely over-complicate unsubscribe function. it's ridiculous. but, thats their fault. when done right, all is well.
to unsubscribe to a feed using vlogdirs.... you simply click a link in the message and a page will tell you that you are unsibscribed... and you will be unsubscribed ;-) if it was a mistake, another click resubscribes you. no logins needed.
email is not broken... in some cases its 'too fixed' and obviously it is also taken advantage of by spammers... but email as a technology is a fine thing. just look at us using this mailing list ;-)
RSS and RSS Readers do empower the user to quickly subscribe/unsubscribe without reliance on 3rd party service/database.... but again, it's up to the service provider to make it just as easy as it is in an RSS Reader. It's about the architecture of a service more than the technology itself.
I certainly would have zero interest in using or offering a service that is complex to sub/unsub.
sull
On 2/14/06, Pete Prodoehl <
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Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I do think that it is more important to have email systems improved more so
> than having people switch to just RSS readers. Some have tried to mimic
> email using RSS... which is interesting but i dont know if that can be a
> logical long-term solution. Maybe... and there are plenty of supporting
> arguments... but spam can infiltrate anything given time. If most people
> used RSS and not email, RSS would have more spam than email ;-) And people
> will always need and use email no matter what.
I use email for what it's good for, and I use RSS for what it's good
for. One more than one occasion I've found it nearly impossible to
unsubscribe from a mailing list or email newsletter. I can always
unsubscribe to an RSS feed. In this way, RSS puts the user in control,
and that's a good thing. I'm not one of those people who think "email is
broken" because I use it every day and it works pretty well. Ultimately,
I want a choice of either email or RSS (or whatever) as a delivery method.
Pete
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