If you subscribe to many yahoogroups, now you can read the messages in a RSS reader. The Yahoogroups RSS URI Generator (http://feeds.archive.org/misc/yahoogroups/)provides the rss feed for each group. It works only for groups that have a publicly readable archive of messages.

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“It’s going to subsume e-mail and subsume many forms of publicity,” said Steve Gillmor, a technology columnist and blogger. “The problem with e-mail is trying to stop a fire hose of data with a thumb in a dike.”

Gillmor argues that RSS will solve the spam problem with “mutual syndication,” since aggregators subscribe and retrieve data in what’s called a “pull model,” as opposed to e-mail, which other people push to a user’s e-mail account. He also believes that RSS can be helpful in suggesting new sources of information, based on what others with similar feeds are reading.