[Web4lib] RSS

[Houghton, Sarah]

The two options that I am familiar with are:

RMail: http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/rss2smtp.aspx
and
rss2email: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/

I prefer RSS to e-mail because I can access it on my terms, when I want to, and exactly what I want to.  With e-mail listservs, I feel "pushed upon," whereas with RSS, I know all the information is sitting there happily, waiting for me to read it when I'm ready.  Because I subscribe to nearly 300 RSS feeds, if all of those came in through e-mail I would become, in short, insane.  To each his or her own, of course!

Sarah Houghton

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Mike Taylor
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:20 AM
To: dmattison at shaw.ca
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] RSS


> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:55:47 -0700
> From: "D.H. Mattison" <dmattison at shaw.ca>
> 
> Ditto on Sarah Houghton's excellent response. A presentation I gave
> in May to the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association
> touches on how RSS can be used in a library settings:
> http://www.accessola.com/olita/images/digitalodyssey05/collab_web_tools_3rd_Draft.ppt

I dislike having to receive RSS alerts when I already have a perfectly
good alerting mechanism -- email -- that's been serving me well for
two decades.  Does anyone know of a simple RSS-to-email gateway that
will periodically poll the RSS feeds I am interested in and email the
results to me?  Thanks.

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