RE: [syndication] RSS aggregators for non-technical folk

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

> Feedreader is the one under most serious consideration for
> reccommendation because my boss tried it on someones reccomendation and
> met his needs.  We aren't religious about this product though, and we
> have no opinion on Radio, Newzcrawler and the recently released Awasu.

fwiw, I've been using Amphetadesk as a desktop client and it seems to work
nicely, the only real problem I've got is information overload - not enough
time to read all the channels...

> I tried NewsGator today just long enough to see if it worked.  It did
> and its pretty easy to use on the surface. I think combing the mail
> reader and RSS reader with outlook (or mozilla or any other mail client
> for that matter) is a valid approach. I think I will see if anyone has
> an NTTP reader for outlook now too.

In Outlook 2000 it's on the 'View' menu -> 'Go To' -> 'News'
(Hopefully the menu layout has improved on later versions)

> Here is a thought.  How about an RSS->IMAP filter?  RSS Items show up as
> items in an IMAP folder, so you can use any mail reader you want with
> your email provider and have a common interface to email, nntp, and rss
> headlines?  Or RSS->NNTP on a local NNTP server?  Or maybe its just
> better to run something like aggie in the background and have a web
> interface? Hmm. I just can't decide.

RSS -> IMAP would certainly make sense for a way of reusing the UI. I can't
remember seeing a tool going this way, but somewhere around I think I saw
IMAP -> RSS. There's an open source RSS -> NNTP ("nntp//rss") at

http://www.methodize.org/nntprss

so basically it is possible to get RSS in Outlook ;-)

Cheers,
Danny.