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With All Due Respect to Dave

In response to Dave's response to Jeff Veen.

An e-mail type of interface is what makes reading my RSS feeds possible at all. Being able to categorize and sort my feeds into what I find important at the moment is exactly what I want. Instead of being at the mercy of one flat window filled with thousands of poorly titled items with no real metadata to guide me, I make the feeds flow into little channels that fit my particular consumption habits. This is a good thing. Like I posted earlier, I want way more meta data about feeds, I want dynamic sorting based off of arbitrary relevance scoring. I want more sorting and grouping, not less. We have listened to your simple idea. We've tried the fire-hose way. It sucked.

Dave, I like you, I really do. But please don't condescend to us about the proper way to use RSS. We know RSS is not e-mail. But we want to apply the best paradigms from e-mail to the best paradigms about RSS. These things make our information consumption manageable. Ultimately we all find work flows that work well for us, and if the fire-hose if your thing, then rock on. But don't pretend that your workflow will work for every consumer of RSS.