Comments on: Can RSS feeds replace email? http://dionaea.com/blog/archives/2005/03/13/can-rss-feeds-replace-email/ My thoughts and whatever about random topics. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kaisa http://dionaea.com/blog/archives/2005/03/13/can-rss-feeds-replace-email/#comment-54 Kaisa Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:41:17 +0000 http://dionaea.com/blog/archives/2005/03/13/can-rss-feeds-replace-email/#comment-54 RSS could always replace push mail, but not personal mail. RSS could replace intranets to some extent, but not fully. You don't know how long people will archive their RSS feeds, so you'd have to have a central archive for at least some content that would have been archived on an intranet. But newsletters and genral information e-mails could just as well show up in your prefered feedreader as in your e-mail program. It would probably have saved a ton of storage space too, if used cleverly. When it comes to rss feed generating tools, there are a few developed for Microsoft SharePoint portals - but that's probably not what you're looking for. :) But all decent blogging tools have a RSS feed generator, so you could always just make a blog that is behind some kind of shielding, if you don't want it to be public, and just have it generate your rss feeds from it. RSS could always replace push mail, but not personal mail. RSS could replace intranets to some extent, but not fully. You don’t know how long people will archive their RSS feeds, so you’d have to have a central archive for at least some content that would have been archived on an intranet.

But newsletters and genral information e-mails could just as well show up in your prefered feedreader as in your e-mail program. It would probably have saved a ton of storage space too, if used cleverly.

When it comes to RSS feed generating tools, there are a few developed for Microsoft SharePoint portals - but that’s probably not what you’re looking for. :) But all decent blogging tools have a RSS feed generator, so you could always just make a blog that is behind some kind of shielding, if you don’t want it to be public, and just have it generate your RSS feeds from it.

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