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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 werds »

mfbx9da4 wrote: post #69
TheRealPomax wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that. It's a perfectly fine tool, but "kill the newsletter" is an incredibly bad rallying cry and should be questioned.

it's just a catchy name!

this guy gets it! the thing which annoys me the most about hacker news comments is the pedantry: "how about stop trying to kill technology you don't like" shhhhh

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

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Post by malandrew »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #55

How about... we do both? Because it's not exactly too much effort to set up an atom and rss feed to go along with your email newsletter. Can we stop (subtly in this case, not so subtly in others) crusading against tech that we don't personally like, when thousands upon thousands rely on it because that's the format they're comfortable with and want to receive periodicals in? Set up a system that meets people where th…

It would be nice if GMail pioneered this by adding an RSS reader to Gmail and automatically unsubscribing you from newsletters that have a RSS feed and automatically subscribing your to the RSS feed.

I really want my inbox back, but I feel like I'm constantly battling lists I get subscribed to that I didn't ask to be subscribed to.

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

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Post by taejo »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #8

What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.

For me, I check email every day and read or delete every new email before I consider it done. I open my RSS reader when I feel like it (2-3 times a week) and have some free time to read and enjoy.

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

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Post by TheRealPomax »

werds wrote: post #81
mfbx9da4 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's just a catchy name!

this guy gets it! the thing which annoys me the most about hacker news comments is the pedantry: "how about stop trying to kill technology you don't like" shhhhh

welcome to hacker news, if you didn't want to see pedantry, you might be hanging out with the wrong crowd ;)

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

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Post by syoc »

kureikain wrote: post #71

I think it came down to personal preferences. I tried to use RSS but it's yet another app that I cannot form a habit to check it. Plus I like the personal look and feel of each email newsletter I got. I instead of relying on email as a real time news feed. But getting too many emails I have to category and make miss some exciting development news. I though of this, why not combine all of the newsletter and display th…

RSS being pull and not push is a great feature IMO. You check up on your feeds when you want to, if you never do it might not really be worth your time or you might not enjoy it. If you really want some kind of reminder then some readers like tt-rss can send daily digest.

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

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Post by asdff »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #8

What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.

It's all personal preference. Some prefer to keep their email inbox strictly for personal communication, and the regularly scheduled third party content in one place in their feed reader.

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

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Post by asdff »

kleer001 wrote: post #15

Why not both? Some people have good control over their email inbox. Some don't.

Honestly email tooling is sort of junky that it makes it hard to consistently apply rules. I use mac OS mail, so maybe that's why. Rules seem to be selectively applied, and if you try to get fancy with multiple conditions don't be surprised if the results vary. Also, none of this has feature parity with iOS, so rules are only applied if my macbook is open and actively applying them; my iPhone doesn't have the ability to process rules itself. Maybe this could be fixed with some third party software, but I'd rather not grow dependent on the continued mercy of third party software developers as I've been burned doing that too many times before.

All of this headache, however, is eliminated if you just move this sort of content to a decent feed reader to begin with, where every single option out there has filtering options baked in.

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

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Post by augusto-moura »

samizdis wrote: post #61
imglorp wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another HN today is talking about tracking pixels in newsletter mails so the sender can evaluate effectiveness. I bet a general mail-rss bridge with many subscribers would make them sad.

In case anyone's missed it, that's this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513 - from the BBC article 'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56071437

Don't really needs a thread, using images for email tracking is a old and well known technique, but whatever maybe there are more people that don't know that in the end
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