From Client Features and Futures:

Ed Brill from IBM, while showing off their next generation client approach for Lotus Workspace, talking about the Calendar application pointed out it may serve populating a calendar from an RSS Feed.

Will Kennedy, GM, Outlook, Microsoft: RSS will be an important technology moving forward. You ahve to wonder what the fundamental difference is, its a matter of what folder you look for it in. Main difficulty with the current email model is that its so polluted you can't find where your newsletter is. We need to be a better job helping people see the things they want to in their inbox.

Ed Brill from IBM: We need to provide a tool that aggregates multiple inputs. Already we have RSS feeds where an advertisement comes in, so its back to inbox spam.

This comment misses the point. If I get an ad in an RSS message and I don't want it, I can unsubscribe. This is the benefit of the Pull model with user control. Subscribe to trusted sources and you determine who to trust. Ross

From The Changing Face of Email:

Eric Hahn: What is the difference between a public email folder and an an RSS feed or blog or wiki?

Eric Hahn: There is a group of people who say email is dead that say email is dead because of spam, which is why we should switch to their model, but if we do, we will have spam there.

From My Info Is In Here Somewhere:

Raymie Stata: I don't include RSS in the categories like IM and wikis because RSS has already become part of email's scope.