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by Piskvor 5352 days ago
That's, historically, a pretty interesting reversal - I'm pretty sure I went for RSS (back in the dawn of time around 2000) to avoid the flood of e-mail news/newsletters, and for faster notifications (back then). Ah, the Wheel of Life indeed: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html
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Well, I found myself flooded with feeds. That was the idea behind feed2mail - get the important stuff by mail. You are right, this is a pretty interesting reversal.