Kaitlin Duck Sherwood said:
Q: Okay, what's the idea?
A: Add something RSS-like to email clients, where the client
occasionally (and infrequently) polls "subscribed" sites for new content
and drops any new content into the normal mail stream (so that you could
filter it into folders).
For example, suppose I want to subscribe to the Floss Recycling
newsletter. The Floss Recycling Web site gives instructions on the
subscription address and when the newsletter comes out (e.g. "Mondays at
3 PM PST). I set up my email client to poll every Monday at 4 AM and to
drop the newsletter into my FlossRecycling folder.
Kaitlin,
As a datapoint: I receive RSS gated through my mail already (I use Aaron
Swartz' rss2mail script as my blog-reading app, basically), so I can vouch
that this is a good way to receive "newsletters". ;)
Also, I put up a MailMan-to-RSS gateway at http://taint.org/mmrss/ a year
and a bit ago; I hear MM are now looking into producing RSS directly from
their archiver, which is great news.
Summary: I'm well interested in this stuff, and I think it could fly (if
the bulk mailers can be convinced).
--j.
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