I was just referred to a great article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal by Jason Fry, titled “Stop the Email Madness!” (hopefully this link remains accessible for none-subscribers). Jason further elaborates on the sins of occupational SPAM that I had discussed in last weeks “Making email boring” post:

“Forget Spam — It’s Unnecessary Email
That Makes Our Inboxes Runneth Over”

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There is already quite an arsenal of collaborative enterprise solutions one can choose from to offload the ubiquitous use of email. A recent article in eWeek is now touting RSS as another possible cure to “email malaise”.

I do agree that RSS feeds are a great way to remove the clutter such as mailing list subscriptions and other mass mailings from your inbox and the inclusion of RSS support in the latest Outlook and Notes clients will certainly ease enterprise adoption. However, there are some caveats to consider before blindly endorsing RSS.

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