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A look at some free RSS readersA look at some free RSS readersPosted Jan 1, 2011 3:57 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)Parent article: A look at some free RSS readers
rss2mail would have been a good addition to this article.
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A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 1, 2011 16:22 UTC (Sat) by danielbaumann (subscriber, #38804) [Link]
and canto.
A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 1, 2011 16:25 UTC (Sat) by dodji (subscriber, #49817) [Link]
Indeed.
I am an rss2email user myself, and I fail to see what it would lack compared to say, Newsbeutter. If what you want is something like Mutt, why not just using rss2email and keep using Mutt to read your RSS feeds as well?
You get features like tagging/sorting/filtering "gratis", as you already have it in your email system. If you use IMAP you automatically get the "centralization" feature of things like Google Reader. If your email system allows you to read emails offline then you get it implicitly with rss2email.
When I think about all this I wonder why anyone would not want to treat his RSS feeds just like his good old email :-)
A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 2, 2011 8:28 UTC (Sun) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
Definitely. rss2email is the only way to read RSS in my book. We solved the asynchronous message problem years and years ago with email. Why create an entirely separate suite of programs to a small variation on a theme?
A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 6, 2011 7:12 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913) [Link]
Because it's a Cool New Thing, with a Cool New Name.
A lot can be explained by that, including many phenomena outside of computing. Unfortunately.
A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 15, 2011 13:48 UTC (Sat) by oblio (guest, #33465) [Link]
I don't need an email account to read feeds. And I don't need to give you, *possibly* evil publisher my email address so that you can send me feeds.
Also, I can unsubscribe easily from your now-turned-evil feed :)
This is at least one of the reasons why this relation is false: mail > feed.
A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 16, 2011 8:30 UTC (Sun) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
Well, if you have a box to periodically run rss2email on as a cron job, you're likely to have the ability to install an email server on that box and read email there without channeling it through another account anywhere else.
A look at some free RSS readers Posted Jan 16, 2011 8:31 UTC (Sun) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
Or maybe you just misunderstood rss2email -- it's a script that reads rss feeds and turns them into emails when you run it.
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