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Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds

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Very useful! What worries me: when this eventually fails, I won't know it's not working anymore (partially the fault of my feedreader, but still).

Hi norswap, Author of Kill the Newsletter! here. That is a valid concern, thanks for bringing it up. I worry about this myself, being the #1 user of the tool. Do you have any idea how to fix it, though? I thought of a dead man’s switch kind of thing, in which I would periodically add an “everything is still working” for low-volume feeds, but I didn’t do it because I would consider such entries spam. What do you think…

I don't really have a better suggestion. Ideally, making sure that the feeds would raise some kind of error condition in all feed readers, but I doubt there's something universal like that.

Maybe the "still working" message is good enough, it wouldn't bother me too much, personally.

Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds

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I prefer to use my email clients to read my news. Means I don't have to run an additional application. I have a script which monitors RSS feeds and turns them into emails. I filter them into a "News" mail folder. I run K-9 Mail, Mutt and Webmail depending on what device I'm using. Thanks to IMAP my "news readers" stay in sync due to the "\Seen" IMAP flag, and the ability to delete messages. Thanks to IMAP PUSH I don'…

> I prefer to use my email clients to read my news. Many email clients also handle RSS directly. Thunderbird, for example, is the most responsive RSS reader I've used.

That's fine if you only use a single email client and that email client is Thunderbird. Does Thunderbird sync RSS feed contents and state of those feeds with other clients on other platforms? Does it even do it with other instances of Thunderbird?

Re: Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds

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NewsBlur does something similar. Forward your newsletters and they appear as an RSS feed. Works with any kind of email...

Similarly, Feedbin gives you an email address you can aim a newsletter at and see as another feed. It's kinda genius.

yeah, https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...
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