Matt McAlister :: Where is RSS to email?

I've almost given up trying to convince my wife and even some of my more technically inclinded friends of the benefits of RSS. It just doesn't matter to them yet. We've talked about and looked at some of the blogs that Jessica would likely be interested in following, but she keeps asking a great question, "Can't I just get an email from them?"

I don't have a good answer for her.

I know there are a couple of RSS to Email tools out there, but I haven't found an online service that does this the right way, yet. Anyone know of a good solution?

You can obviously get RSS in GMail, but that view is pretty poor and my wife doesn't use GMail. NewsGator is fine for Outlook users but it is only a partial solution. Shouldn't there be a standard way to get RSS entries emailed to everyone to any email account?

Sometimes we forget to retrofit new ideas for the rest of the world. This seems like a real fast way to catch everyone up.

Tags: email, rss

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Re: Where is RSS to email?

by Rex Hammock on Mon 03 Oct 2005 02:45 PM EDT rexhammock

I haven't tried it, but these folks claim to have a solution: http://www.rssfwd.com/

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Re: Where is RSS to email?

by Charlie Wood on Mon 03 Oct 2005 03:19 PM EDT cwood

Try FeedBlitz <http://www.feedblitz.com/>. Works well for me.

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Re: Where is RSS to email?

by Rex Hammock on Mon 03 Oct 2005 10:00 PM EDT rexhammock

Just saw where Feedburner is working w/ FeedBlitz to offer a solution that sounds like what you're describing.

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Re: Where is RSS to email?

by Tom on Tue 04 Oct 2005 09:25 AM EDT tpimental

I've always found Rmail to be quite useful. It reads a user-supplied RSS feed and emails any new updates

http://www.kbcafe.com/rmail.aspx

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