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Pkchukiss



Joined: Dec 06, 2002
Posts: 34
PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 11:37 pm    Post subject:
I guess I must be a niche user or something, but I have this bad habit of collecting all the e-newsletters in my inbox, and then reading it a few days, even one month later, when I have the time. Call me a troll, but I really want to store and archive all of my newsletters. For me, it is possible to do that because individual issues of my newsletters reach my e-mail box daily, and I could download and save it.

But with RSS newsfeeds, I have to be online at least once a day in order to download the news feed, and that is something I might not have the time to do so. With e-mail delievery, I am able to gather all the issues in my POP3 mail server, and collect it all in one shot.

What with all the strengths of RSS and all, there is this concern (at least for me). So I was wondering, if there is a possibility of a new content delievery method, which escapes the nuisances of spam and spam filters, while allowing trolls like me get their fix?
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fuzzygroup



Joined: Aug 24, 2003
Posts: 51
PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 4:18 am    Post subject:
What you need is an either:

A news aggregator which archives everything. Newsgator is an excellent example although there are (I believe) others. http://www.newsgator.com

A web based news aggregator which does the same thing (archives). Most server side aggregators are better at this than client side aggregators. http://www.bloglines.com/

A rss to email aggregator so that your rss feeds arrive in your inbox and are archived there.

I honestly don't think the solution is another standard that replicates what we have. What you're looking for is just the right tool.

Scott
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61Dynamic



Joined: Dec 12, 2002
Posts: 484
PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:00 am    Post subject:
FeedDeemon also archives RSS feeds.

Bloglines looks cool, but I'd like to have a PHPscript of some sort I can put on my domain that would archive feeds and still let me use FeedDeemon to access them. I don't know PHP or any other scripting, so I'll have to let someone else make it...
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fuzzygroup



Joined: Aug 24, 2003
Posts: 51
PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:21 pm    Post subject:
Hm... An interesting concept. Meta aggregation essentially.

Scott
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