As I surf the blogosphere and subscribe to feeds, I find a rather large portion of the RSS feeds are actually invalid. My reaction, email the blog author w/ information on how he can fix his feed. I email about 1 blogger per day and help him fix-up his feed. My emails get two reactions.
- The blogger thanks me.
- The blogger gets pissed off and returns w/ hate mail and often resort to other unethical behaviors.
Fortunately, the first reaction occurs much more often than the second. By the way, reaction #1 often gets you subscribed and reaction #2 gets you the big unsubscribe.