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Sunday, October 26, 2008

SendMeRSS / Rmail bites the dust

SendmeRSS I missed this when it was first "announced", but apparently the first RSS to email utility that I fell in love with is no more.  About a year and a half ago, NBC purchased Rmail and rebranded it as SendMeRSS.  Apparently NBC just stopped supporting it; the SendMeRSS website is down, and Randy Charles Morin, the original developer of Rmail, is reporting that NBC is threatening legal action against him for pointing out the fact that they're no longer supporting SendMeRSS.  Seems a little heavy-handed, eh?  Interestingly, in his post from August 24, 2008 Randy points to a library blog that detailed some of the problems being experienced with the now defunct product.  Scarily, that blog no longer exists, though of course you can still read about the problems (and here) on Google's cache.  Pittland simply ceased to exist after the last August 1, 2008 post.  Wonder if I'll be next?  ;-)

Since it was one of the first RSS to email options I offered on this site I suspect there may be a few folks either receiving (or not) content from me via that channel.  I'd be really interested to hear whether you're still getting stuff from me, or NBC, or ?  I know it's a long shot, kinda like "raise your hand if you're not here", but it's worth a shot :-)

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