Mail 5.2 keeps asking for RSS Feed

For the past couple of days, Mail has been asking me on a regular basis to "Specify the URL for a feed". When this happens, mail steals focus and presents me with this dialog box:
I've no idea why this is happening as I've never used Mail as an RSS reader. I checked the sidebar and found 3 feeds (the Apple Hot News plus two others including the one listed in the dialog box) which I must somehow have added accidentally in the past. I've deleted all the RSS feeds so there's no longer an RSS category in the sidebar, but every so often, up pops mail with this same request.
I've gone into Mail Preferences, set Default RSS Reader to "Safari" and Check for Updates to "Manually" but I'm still getting the request.
I can't work out what has changed to trigger this behaviour.
How do I stop it?

Safari 6.0 no longer supports RSS. Mail is trying to take over RSS duties. Mountain Lion drops RSS feeds entirely, including Mail.
RM

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