Hi Peter,

It's in .NET, but PopHeadlines (http://graemef.com/blog/articles/280.aspx) looks like it might do what you want.

Mark

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:59:46AM -0700, Binkley, Peter wrote:
> I recently went looking for something to do the opposite: pull in RSS feeds
> and send their content out again as emails, for those who prefer to get
> their current awareness stream in their inbox. The most promising thing I
> found was this:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/rss2email/
>
> Has anyone tried it, or does anyone have an alternative to suggest? It's in
> Python, which is terra incognita to me, so I haven't started to play with
> it.
>
> In my search I did run into some projects that claim to do what Eric
> suggests, but I didn't note them.
>
> Would there be any advantage to developing a two-way conversion script? The
> data models for email and RSS and the mapping between them could be reused,
> I suppose.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Binkley
> Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
> Information Technology Services
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Lease Morgan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 11:41 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] mailinglist2rss.pl
> >
> >
> > On 2/9/04 1:35 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > I have two new ideas (at least new for me), and the first one is
> > > called
> > > iIndex: Search Your Own Stuff...
> >
> > The other idea is something called mailinglist2rss.pl.
> >
> > Mailing lists are cool and work quite well. RSS is great way
> > to syndicate content. I thought I might be able to combine
> > their strengths by writing a procmail recipe that listens to
> > a mailing list. When the recipe receives input it first pipes
> > the email message to a mailing list archiver (say,
> > Hypermail). Next, the recipe updates an RSS file where the
> > new message gets pushed onto a stack. This RSS file is then
> > syndicated to various RSS readers.
> >
> > Such a program, mailinglist2rss.pl, would allow people to
> > monitor a mailing list without having to subscribe, nor would
> > they have to actively visit the mailing list archives for updates.
> >
> > What about this one?
> >
> > --
> > Eric Morgan
> > University Libraries of Notre Dame
> >
> > (574) 631-8604
> >

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