I tried out nntp//rss http://www.methodize.org/nntprss.It worked well for reading within mozzilla mail/news client. A screenshot (not mine)
http://tinyurl.com/6o0aI think this is a promising program. Adding feeds is via a built in web server. If a couple RSS directories (like syndic8, newsisfree, and myrss.com) ran this tool I wouldn't need an aggregator. I think the newsreader/mailfolder view of items is a natural user interface, and IMO much more friendly than running yet another client or scrolling through the web page that aggie makes as a summary of all my feeds. I suppose I could write an XSLT to convert an OPML file into an NTRSS file as a start. If you have a newsreader you like, nntprss looks pretty good.
Makes you wonder about RSS at all. Ignoring historical reasons, why not just expose every item summary as an NNTP posting that is XML+RDF and use a CSS to display the summary?
Danny Ayers wrote:
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.Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/