Is RSS the cure for spam?

December 11, 2007
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OK, this is getting ridiculous.

At 12:16AM today, I deleted 11,769 spam emails from the Junk folder for three email accounts. Luckily, Apple’s Mail program does a pretty good job of filtering them so I only have to deal with a very small percentage up close and personal.

The program finished deleting them at 12:17 and immediately picked up 67 more spams. I deleted them and it picked up 24 more. I deleted them and it picked up 9. Instead of deleting those 9, I stopped to write this.

RSS iconIn the time it took to write this, Mail picked up 4 more. It’s no wonder that more and more websurfers are using RSS to have information delivered. An RSS subscription is anonymous. If the recipient no longer wishes to receive the information, they just unsubscribe and their email address is never given to anyone. If you’re marketing on the Internet without an RSS feed, you’re making a big mistake that will only get bigger.

Open-Realty, an open source real estate listings manager, generates RSS feeds for both user-designated Featured Listings and for Recently Modified Listings. That way, RSS subscribers can keep up-to-date on price changes, etc.

Open-Realty logoIt also has a Page Editor so you can add other pages such as an “About Us” or “About the Area” page without knowing how to program HTML.

Open-Realty software is open source so it’s free to use. Templates can be used to customize the look and feel of the website or you can design your own template from scratch.

Orange Cat has a variety of comprehensive Open-Realty installation, configuration, and hosting solutions. See OrangeCat.net for more information.

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