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Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by chrismorgan »

billyhoffman wrote: post #19
lucideer wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article you link lists numerous advantages to using Atom over RSS (and no advantages to RSS). Why would you consider RSS over Atom?

That article also has an XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE, and wastes a request trying to load JavasScript for Google Plus.... this is not up-to-date information. The "advantages" are minor at best, and exclusively relevant to a developer, with very little impact on the end-user

Not exclusively relevant to a developer.

I have one or two things in my feeds that can’t be expressed in RSS, such as HTML markup in my titles (which I use for , and I think ). I also have angle brackets in a title, which I would be afraid to do in RSS because I’m confident that some clients would butcher it, and they wouldn’t even be wrong since RSS don’t care.

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by t0astbread »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #35
t0astbread wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For non-personalized newsletters it's pretty useless for you to give out an email address. No one's ever gonna address you individually so all it creates are potential privacy issues if you give out your real email address. The only benefit I can see even for non-personalized newsletters is that you have it in your mailbox and can use your normal email filtering tools to deal with newsletter messages.

I guess I've just never really considered my email address as some kind of secret thing that warrants a privacy concern.

Neither do I, really, but I would be concerned about newsletter hosts being able to build a profile of my interests based on what I'm subscribed to.

If I can just use Atom/RSS over HTTP instead I can avoid that easily.

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by beagle3 »

neogodless wrote: post #25
dddddaviddddd wrote: post #22

Ironically I convert atom feeds into email newsletters using rss2email. One less app to keep open.

Ha! I had almost forgot. About a decade ago (time frame made up / guessed) I used Thunderbird as my RSS reader. Just checked and it can still do that. Since it's my primary email reader, voila! (But I use Feedly.com web site on computer and Feedly app on phone now which is easier for managing RSS than Thunderbird by a mile. Though looking below there is Export/Import of feeds, I'm not sure there's a way to just sync…

I used to use thunderbird to read RSS. The problem though is that if you don’t poll often enough (and for some feeds, that’s every few hours) you’ll miss articles and updates — and my laptop is sometimes off for a couple of days.

I’ve switched to NewsBlur a few years ago. Happy paying customer. (But bot affiliated). The bonus is synchronized phone/laptop/desktop reading status.

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by Glench »

I love this service. Been using it for a long time and have switched all my newsletters to it. Now I get so many fewer emails. As the creators of Hey figured out, it's wonderful to have a separate feed of newsletters since they're fundamentally different than other types of email — they're generally not urgent and don't need to be acted upon. I keep mine in my RSS reader BazQux.

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by briandoll »

ChrisLTD wrote: post #2

I love this service. I use it to subscribe to a few newsletters in Feedly that don't offer RSS feeds. The paid versions of Feedly and Feedbin also offer this functionality directly if you prefer to pay for the privilege of consuming newsletters in your RSS reader.

Came here to say this, love how this works in Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by beagle3 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #30
mikece wrote: post #7

Why Atom instead of RSS? I understand the differences between the two formats[1] but I am curious what it is about Atom that caused the maker of this project to choose it over RSS. [1] http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-betwe...

Atom is technically substantially superior to RSS. RSS is riddled with ambiguities which lead to inconsistency of interpretation, and being outright unable to express some useful things. My favourite is the format of all content: is it HTML or text? RSS doesn’t care, and leaves you to guess. So people added a namespace to fix that up, and you end up with what I think is normally spelled to replace or whatever it is—b…

I am a paying NewsBlur customer and like it very much.

It is, however, too picky about atom/rss - if you have a feed with some wrong entries (e.g. the one from freshcode.club) it will discard the problem items without a warning while still showing the valid items.

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by rmetzler »

frankfrankfrank wrote: post #31

What am I missing? You name the feed and then get a link to subscribe to it. How does the supply side actually provide the newsletter/content that will be distributed to that address?

You also get an email address to subscribe to the email list with.
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