[LINK] Blog to stop large e-mail newsletters?

[Tom Worthington]

At 07:18 PM 9/15/2005, Michael Still wrote:
>Tom Worthington wrote:
> > ... try subscribing to my Blog news feed <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/>.
> >
> > Perhaps one use for Blogs would be to replace those annoying large HTML
> > and PDF newsletters organizations send by e-mail. ...
>
>... You do need to remember that RSS is a hideous waste of bandwidth ...

Compared to the megabyte of PDF in a typical email newsletter, RSS is very 
compact. It is just some text with HTML markup with an extra XML wrapping.

This is efficient if the subscriber only reads a few of the articles in the 
RSS feed and so most of the linked images and documents are never loaded to 
the subscriber's browser.



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