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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 4-30 Cameron Library University of Alberta Libraries Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 Phone: (780) 492-3743 Fax: (780) 492-9243 e-mail: [log in to unmask] > -----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 >