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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 > 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 > > -- Mark Jordan Acting Coordinator of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023 [log in to unmask] / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/