RSS Spamware; Enterprise RSS

Nick Bradbury has a strong post up about RSS, spam, spyware, and blogs...  excerpt;

...We've already seen email crippled by spammers. Likewise, if your blog has comments enabled, you're no doubt frustrated by all the comment spam. Great companies like SixApart are forced to invest a huge chunk of time tackling the spam problem (and they do an admirable job), but this takes resources away from giving us the features we need. Given this history, every new technology needs to think about spam right from the start, or else risk be crippled by it (btw, many implementations of tagging also come to mind as being particularly spammable).

The Otter Group has a good post with a link to an article about Enterprise RSS, in which post they observe that;

...The end result, because the portal appears stagnant, people stop visiting. Sure you can force people to use web-based systems for expense reporting, etc. Fine, but day-to-day information needs will be fulfilled elsewhere. This is the beauty of RSS ...