RSS to email for dummies?

August 19, 2005 7:39 AM

Is there a (free) service that will email me all updates to a particular blog?

I've set a friend up with a blog (via Blogger, if that makes a difference) and I'd like to be able to offer the blog in (email) newsletter form, since I know that some of her readers will have little interest in checking her blog regularly, and even less interest in using an RSS reader.

What I'd love is to be able to post a link that, upon clickage, will take the reader to a page where all they have to do is type in their email address to subscribe (i.e. no registration). Can do?

posted by skryche to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Use an RSS aggregator.
posted by curtm at 8:03 AM on August 19, 2005

Any of these work? I just googled RSS to email.

I don't think Blogger has anything like this, but I know several other blogging programs have it.
posted by gramcracker at 8:06 AM on August 19, 2005

Best answer: RssFwd works for me.
posted by Mroz at 8:07 AM on August 19, 2005

curtm : didn't skryche just say that his/her friend's readers have no interest in an RSS reader? I'd imagine they won't be interested in aggregators, hence the "to-email" thing.
posted by divabat at 9:29 AM on August 19, 2005

Response by poster: Mroz, that is exactly what I want. Bonus points for suggesting a tool based on the terribly hip Ruby on Rails!
posted by skryche at 9:45 AM on August 19, 2005

This answers a question I'd had for a while. RssFwd looks great, thanks.
posted by Vidiot at 4:08 PM on August 19, 2005

Blogger has an option to email posts when the post is published. For a site I maintain, I have the address set to send the posts to a mailing list to which people have subscribed.
posted by Dick Paris at 6:46 AM on August 20, 2005