[WEB4LIB] Library blog question

[Broun, Kevin (NIH/NCI)]

You could use something like rss2email
<http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/> to generate the emails, and a
mailing list server like your ls.suny.edu to manage the addresses.  In case
you have too much time on your hands :-) , I wrote about a custom solution
to this problem, and briefly discussed open source solutions, in LJ
netConnect last year <http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA428129>.

Kevin Broun
Senior Web Developer
Communication Services Branch
National Cancer Institute
kbroun at nih.gov
301/402-2271 

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew, Bill [mailto:drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:51 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Library blog question


I am planning on bringing our library blog into production late in the
spring or early summer.  It is at http://l2.morrisville.edu/blog.  It
currently contains only test entries and  a few with actual useful
information in them.  I am looking for some way to make them available
via e-mail as new entries are added.  I would like to find some way to
let patrons "subscribe" to a particular category and have them receive
it via e-mail, preferably the actual entry but would settle for a note
saying it had been updated or a new entry added.  Each category has an
RSS feed.  It is running on an old IBM 300GL running Apache2 under
Ubuntu flavor of Linux using blosxom to run the blog.  It is entirely
open source free software.  I do not have comments enabled and probably
will not.  Any suggestions for the e-mail portion?  It must be open
source and free.  I would appreciate any other constructive comments as
well. I have posted this message to web4lib-l and to Linux in Libraries
lists.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
Morrisville State College Library
E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
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