Comments on: Offertrax Allows Online Merchants to Use RSS to Connect With Customers

By: Jeremy Luebke

Jeremy Luebke — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:49:28 +0000

Yea, I am a heave RSS reader but there are a few things I will never use RSS for and don’t think it should be.

The first one is comments or subscribing to a blog post of forum thread.

And I will never use RSS to track special offers.

Both of those are more suited to email.

By: ron pruett/offertrax

ron pruett/offertrax — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:16:30 +0000

Andy, good point but this is not the case with Offertrax. We have a “private” option should you wish to keep your feeds to yourself. More to come. We had to close our recent beta to newcomers but hope you’ll check it out soon.
Ron

By: ron pruett/offertrax

ron pruett/offertrax — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:16:08 +0000

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:13:18 +0000

It has potential, but then again many feed readers allow you to share your RSS feeds far too easily.
I can’t think of a way of exploiting it off-hand, but people would find a way.

For this type of notification, email is so much better.