[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> You have to think about RSS beyond it's present uses, and instead think of
> how it can help solve problems that plague us. 

Good idea.  RSS could be set up with filters for standard headers that could
include "warning" or "danger", and then execute a program of your choosing to
alert you.

> If you and I were to have peer to peer RSS with encryption, I would read what
> you sent me specifically, and could respond to you specifically. No SPAM.

This is great if we always knew who we wanted to talk with, and could set that
up ahead of time.  And there could be a simple mechanism to allow people to
send you "RSS email", then to drop that mail into a box, removing that
privilege if that feed started spamming you.  But you would still
have the task of setting up the connection in the first place, and that email
itself would probably contain the SPAM message.

For those people who have distinct audiences and senders, those people wishing
to register their information with some secure database before sending email,
this might work.  But it would disenfranchise many.

Still, it is an option to think about.

md

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