Jon maddog Hall wrote: >[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. > > Well, this idea is over a year old... I wrote about this over a year ago.
> > >>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. > > That's not an issue either. The solutions are as simple as something like a trackback ping. >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. > > Well, SPAM is employing a lot of people. That's probably the real problem. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Panama City, Panama [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
