If Steven Cohen was dead he’d be rolling over in his grave
In the you’ve got to be kidding me category here’s software that turns RSS into e-mail, completely defeating the purpose of RSS.
“Why re-invent the wheel or run yet-another-application to read your stuff? Create another set of folders, sub-folders, filtering, spam-filter training,… when your existing E-mail application has done it all – tried and tested – and finally just the way you like it?”
And the best line on the site:
“it actually seems to work”
Now how’s that for an endorsement?
Update: Reading that first quote again I noticed that it’s full of inaccuracies.
Aggregators automatically put each feed into it’s own folder. No folder creation or “filtering” necessary.
Uh, spam from an RSS feed? Since when?
Nevermind the fact that since there’s no e-mail address involved, RSS feeds can’t be a new way for spammers to get your address and send you more.
Please people, I beg you, do not use a service such as this.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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