> The main advantage of RSS over scraping is that there's little noise due to formatting, TOCs, ads, etc. How would you get past the fact that not everyone pub

> The main advantage of RSS over scraping is that there's little noise due to formatting, TOCs, ads, etc. How would you get past the fact that not everyone publishes the entire piece of content in the RSS feed? Slightly off topic, but related... I've often wondered why no one has created an RSS delivery protocol like IMAP. I've considered writing something many times, but it seems like it could get crushed by a few changes in already existing readers.