rss2email

On the Web4Lib listserv, Kevin Broun posted a possible answer to a question about how to "let patrons "subscribe" to a particular category [of a blog] and have them receive it via e-mail".

You could use something like rss2email to generate the emails, and a mailing list server like your ls.suny.edu to manage the addresses. In case you have too much time on your hands :-) , I wrote about a custom solution to this problem, and briefly discussed open source solutions, in LJ netConnect last year.

It was a pretty easy install and configure; I did it in a few minutes while eating my breakfast. OK, I'm going to post this now and see if it worked.

Posted by Tom on February 09, 2005