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		mbanerjeepalmer on June 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new busi... Thanks for doing this. So, why newsletters? Why not RSS? Clearly Axios and others are showing that email is better. Why do you think this is? How do you think this will develop in future?

exolymph on June 5, 2018 [–]

Not from Substack, but the answer is that people reliably look at their inboxes and open the emails.

cjbest on June 5, 2018 | [–]

Bingo.

That said we have (basic) RSS support as well for those that prefer it, and it's on our list of things to improve.

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