Why does it need to be "kill"? Why not "improve the newsletters"?
All email killers failed to kill email.
Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
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Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#92I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…
I agree, but Bloomberg killed its RSS feeds some years ago.
I'd probably subscribe to more via RSS, but as it is it's just Matt Levine.
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#93I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…
I can’t wait for someone to create an rss feed which sends an email which updates the rss feed which sends another email. Repeat ad infinitum. I wonder what would break first.
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#94What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.
You have to view and manage and then delete them. 99% of my inboxes are emails from non-humans. I'm ready to stream them like RSS or Twitter.. and catch the ones I care about.
You don’t have to do those things. The earth will not stop if there are unread emails in your inbox.
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#95I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…
I can’t wait for someone to create an rss feed which sends an email which updates the rss feed which sends another email. Repeat ad infinitum. I wonder what would break first.
22 or so years ago I moved up from second to third line. I had just got a new home email address and for some reason forwarded home to work and work to home. At the time that was done as two separate and blissfully ignorant decisions.
The work 512Kb Kilostream line passed away peacefully sometime overnight. My home modem nearly melted but I'd exceeded my 10Mb? quota anyway (probably less.)
Apparently I was the first to do that there. GroupWise sprouted loop detection fairly soon after that event anyway and single instance storage helped keep the POAs up when reply all storms became popular.
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#96I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…
FWD:Everyone also creates an Atom feed for subscribing to the uploaded emails from any user or organization.
E.g.: https://www.fwdeveryone.com/u/alex3917
Becomes:
http://api.fwdeveryone.com/user/inbox.atom?username=alex3917
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#97I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…
I can’t wait for someone to create an rss feed which sends an email which updates the rss feed which sends another email. Repeat ad infinitum. I wonder what would break first.
Back in the dark ages, mail loops happened more frequently. I learned the importance of spending the money for an extra spindle for the spool partition that way.
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#98Ironically I convert atom feeds into email newsletters using rss2email. One less app to keep open.
Can you combine those two to get rid of privacy breaking stuff like tracking pixels? First sign up with Kill the newsletter to convert to rss, and then use rss2email to get a scrubbed version of the email?
Or just block images by default in your email client, which you should probably be doing anyway if privacy is your concern.
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#99Earlier 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
I'm not sure I'd call this pedantry, just maybe a different angle or focus than the one you have in mind. Is that fair?
Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
#100I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…
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.
I usually put a curl for the tracking pixel in cron when the plain text version is not available