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Wasn't it pretty silly to need an online application in order to subscribe to and monitor RSS feeds?

It's almost anti-RSS.

It's like requiring an online application to browse the web.

An RSS reader is just a browsers that has a list of bookmarks. Those bookmarks point to specially formatted XML documents. It automatically refreshes those document and notices new items, which it presents somehow, perhaps an mail-inbox-like interface.



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