Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
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Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
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Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#2I'm so glad that someone built this. I have the same use case as the author where I just don't want newsletters to read, but that are time insensitive, intermingled with communication to people in my inbox. I'm excited to try this approach.
I'd be interested to see what other solutions people have come up with to this problem.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#3This service looks really awesome! I think there may be a slight spelling mistake on the first line of the "Introduction" section. It say's "I love newsletters, but I have receiving e-mails", should that be "hate" ?
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#4NewsBlur does something similar. Forward your newsletters and they appear as an RSS feed. Works with any kind of email...
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#5Just a heads up that almost all Mailchimp newsletters (and many others) have RSS feeds. Just put the archive link into your RSS reader and it will autodiscover it.
But this is great for those that don't. Great work.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#6Well, you can't effectively kill newsletter. Because newsletter COMES so you, and you have to CLICK to get feed.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#7Out of curiosity, what's stopping me from using this to sign up for services and having this app mahically keeping their emails out of my inbox, but neatly filed away for when I need it?
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#8It's funny, last week I actually looked for the opposite! I don't use RSS and don't have a reader (since google dropped theirs) and so when I find blogs that interest me, I want to be able to subscribe via emails. Then I just add the updates I receive in the correct folder/tag and go back to read whatever I want, whenevr.
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#9I think we are moving towards a descentralized Internet. The RSS feed needs a central server, the newsletter can be broadcasted and then forwarded peer to peer. I'd argue the opposite then: save the newsletter, just maybe evolve it into something better (maybe with schema email??)
Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds
#10Well, you can't effectively kill newsletter. Because newsletter COMES so you, and you have to CLICK to get feed.
It depends what level of abstraction you're working at. At the level of sockets, you're right that a mail server receives a connection from a sender when a newsletter is sent, whilst an RSS aggregator initiates connections to each feed's source when it polls, even if there are no new articles. At a lower level, the server's doing polling to check for new connections, but that's a fast local operation so it doesn't break the higher-level abstraction.
I wouldn't say there's much difference from a user point of view, i.e. "clicking". Polling for feeds with an RSS reader is comparable to polling for new messages with a mail client. Both can be made fast by fetching mail and/or news in the background, either using a client or using an OS service.