So my story is, I once started a blog. I added an RSS feed and everything. As soon as I showed it to a few friends, one of the first responses: "How do I get this via email??". That's when I learned that most of the world still likes to receive things they care about via email, and don't care about RSS at all.
That's when I had the same realization as Patrick. Email is awesome. If I care about something, I used to run circles to remind myself to check it out when it became more important to me. Now, I just sign up via email, and it saves a lot of cycles.
And hey, if I don't care about it anymore, I get rid of it. We're at the point, with spam filters and legal forces, where 99% of what pops into my inbox, I can make sure never gets there again if I don't want it. To most things, unsubscribing works (it has to by law). The few things it doesn't work for are probably not getting past your spam filter anyway.
That's when I had the same realization as Patrick. Email is awesome. If I care about something, I used to run circles to remind myself to check it out when it became more important to me. Now, I just sign up via email, and it saves a lot of cycles.
And hey, if I don't care about it anymore, I get rid of it. We're at the point, with spam filters and legal forces, where 99% of what pops into my inbox, I can make sure never gets there again if I don't want it. To most things, unsubscribing works (it has to by law). The few things it doesn't work for are probably not getting past your spam filter anyway.