Barbara Feldman has penned the best explanation of RSS I’ve run across. She’s an Internet entrepreneur who clearly never sleeps. She runs SurfNetKids and publishes a weekly newsletter as well as several blogs. She’s now offering her e-newsletter as an RSS feed. What does this mean? You can subscribe to her newsletter using a news aggregator. This bypasses delivery by email all together. And thus avoids the problem of spam filters blocking email messages.
You can also read about RSS in the September 2003 issue of PC World. Heck, it’ll soon be old hat…