http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4017147.stm Let’s put this discussion into the real world.

RSS is not anarchy. Open source is not anarchy. The commons is not anarchy.

If you’re talking about RSS spam in the same sense as Google spam–trying to get spammy content to return in Feedster searches–that makes sense. I was just very confused by your post.

Is that what you were talking about?

Your question makes sense, people have been asking it about Google and Wikipedia for years and years and I don’t think there’s a clear answer. It’s just that the part of your post that discussed RSS spam and Creative Commons seemed unrelated to the question and confused me.

Let’s put this discussion into the real world.

How do you police the commons and keep it from
being destroyed by the unethical?

That’s my question. It’s a fair question.

And I haven’t heard an answer yet. Just insults
directed at me for asking the question. As though
RSS spam doesn’t exist. As though people only subscribe
to “feeds” defined by sites, which is nonsense. People
look for subjects, too — give me everything on that subject.
And the result is that instead of getting a “news stream”
with articles and comments, you get a lot of spam.

Come visit my inbox sometime…

All the best. Thanks for reading it.