Personal communications via RSS are a great idea in theory, but not so good in real life.

The benefits are certainly all here:

• Greater content security with fewer hijacking possibilities
• No spam in your personal communications
• Knowing you will receive all the content sent to you without fear of it being stopped by spam filters

In theory, all of this is perfect.

The simplest implementation of this model is simply turning the RSS publishing model upside down. For example, you provide a form on your website for people to contact you. Instead of that form sending you an e-mail it actually allows people to post messages to your personal RSS feed, to which you are subscribed to with your RSS aggregator.

An excellent way for making sure that none of the content that really matters to you, such as messages from your visitors, is ever lost due to spam filters along the way. And you can easily respond to these messages via RSS.

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