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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>RSS ads arms war begins, it goes like this...</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/04/27/412821.aspx</link><description>Frankie Fresh points out that RSS Bandit developers are considering an ad blocking feature in the next version of their RSS reader. The RSS ads arms war begins, it goes like this: --Users want easier ways to consume relevant content and RSS meets the</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>re: RSS ads arms war begins, it goes like this...</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/04/27/412821.aspx#412969</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:10:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:412969</guid><dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator><description>Hello,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Personally if bloggers &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/2005/02/14.html&amp;quot;&amp;gt;put"&gt;http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/2005/02/14.html&amp;quot;&amp;gt;put&lt;/a&gt; their full posts in tehri feed with ads&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, I'll not have problems with these ads.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The thing I hate more is when I have snippet of posts in my feed reader and that I'm not connected on the internet, wandering somewhere with my laptop.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Salutations,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Fred</description></item><item><title>re: RSS ads arms war begins, it goes like this...</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/04/27/412821.aspx#412995</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:58:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:412995</guid><dc:creator>Fraser Dickson</dc:creator><description>I have seen this already over at the LonghornBlogs ( &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.longhornblogs.com/"&gt;http://www.longhornblogs.com/&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Doesn't really bother me to be honest with you either way. I view RSS feeds via the Newsreader feature in Desktopsidebar ( www.desktopsidebar.com ) and if there are adds at the bottom then so be it.</description></item><item><title>RSS advertising arms race not worth the hassle</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/04/27/412821.aspx#413357</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:45:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:413357</guid><dc:creator>Alex Barnett blog</dc:creator><description>Nick Bradbury, developer of FeedDemon RSS reader shares his thoughts on the RSS advertising arms war&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;(my...</description></item></channel></rss>