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RSS: A Spam Killer!

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victor | 18 May, 2005 08:26

RSS (Real Simple Syndicate) is becoming, day after day, a hot Internet topic for end-users websites. Despite the hard-luck that RSS faced during its early "childhood" when different formats from different providers messed up the daily developer life, RSS 2.0 promises to be a standard corner stone for future RSS improvements.

SPAM, on the other hand, a major topic of controversy among commercial companies, is still a topic that the majority dislikes while the minority still uses and pays for. SPAM is when you receive unwanted email from somone that you don't know and that you didn't even ask to receive email messages from.

In this article, we describe how RSS can be used to fight SPAM by providing examples for the major sources of SPAM and how these sources can be fighted by adopting RSS technology.
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