Is RSS subject to SPAM the same way email is?
No. So far no one has found a way to send unsolicitied spam via RSS. That’s one of the reasons why some people think that RSS is superior to email for things like newsletters. With RSS you never give your email address to the web site you want to receive information from, so the sender has no way to easily identify you. If you decide you don’t want to receive an RSS feed any more, you just remove it from your news reader, and that’s the end of it. You don’t need to contact a web site or have someone else get you off a list. RSS also solves problems that publishers have with putting out email newsletters. With RSS there are no bounces, no list management headaches, no unsubscribe requests, and no delivery failures due to “false positive” spam filters that block legitimate subscriptions by accident.
