TITLE: RSS > Email
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 22, 2016  3:03 PM
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 Newsletters delivered by email seem all the rage these
 days.  I subscribe to only two or three.  Every once
 in a while, the bulk mailer used by these folks gets
 blacklisted by some spam filtering service used by our
 mail server, the mail server respects the blacklist,
 and I don't receive my newsletter.  We've whitelisted
 the senders of two particular newsletters, but even so
 I occasionally don't receive the message.

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 This is one reason I still love RSS.  My newsreader is
 in control of the exchange.  Once authors post their
 articles and updates their feeds, my newsreader can see
 them.  I hit refresh, and the articles appear.  RSS is
 not perfect; occasionally a blog updates its feed and I
 see a bunch of old articles in my reader.  But I've been
 following some bloggers for well over a decade, and it
 has served us all well.

 Do not expect me to hit you up for your email address
 anytime soon.  I understand some of the reasons for
 going the newsletter route, but I think I'll keep
 publishing on my blog with a newsfeed for a while.  That
 said, I love to hear from readers.
<A HREF="mailto:wallingf@cs.uni.edu">
   Send me email</A>
 any time, or tweet me at <TT>@wallingf</TT>.
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