Editing Web feed (section)

==Comparison to email subscriptions==
Web feeds have some advantages compared to receiving frequently published content via an email:
* Users do not disclose their email address when subscribing to a feed and so are not increasing their exposure to threats associated with email: spam, viruses, [[phishing]] and [[identity theft]].
* Users do not have to send an unsubscribe request to stop receiving news. They simply remove the feed from their aggregator.
* The feed items are automatically sorted in that each feed URL has its own sets of entries (unlike an email box where messages must be sorted by user-defined rules and pattern matching).