[ via Jon Udell ] MailBucket provides an email to RSS gateway. Send mail to foo@mailbucket.org and pick up RSS at http://www.mailbucket.org/foo.
Some folks have touted this as a way to lurk on an email list without subscribing, the service’s RSS feed only returns the ten most recent messages. My aggregator checks feeds every four hours, and thus, 20 to 30 messages from XML-DEV have scrolled past. Chuq Von Rospach mentioned this problem last week when we talked about the excitement surrounding replacing email with RSS.
I mean you could do it, but you’re talking about extending RSS with the notion of ranges and deltas. Feed readers would need to store cookies to keep your place, and feed suppliers would need to support http://foo.example.org/foo.rss?last=N where N is the last item the feed sent your reader.
MailBucket’s creator suggests using it as an email gateway using REST. Your system picks up messages and instructions from the feed, and someone else has taken care of the painful bit of procmail.
