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 ;-)