Just found another email2rss service. MailBucket: http://www.mailbucket.org/

YahooGroups now provides direct RSS feeds natively.

If your preferred YahooGroup is set for open, public viewing of the message archives, then you need only to add the extension "messages?rss=1" to the complete URL and you have a full RSS feed for that YahooGroup. As simple as that.

Here is one easy example: Nancy White's great Online Facilitation discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/ has now a new public RSS feed available here.

YahooGroups now provides direct RSS feeds natively.

If your preferred YahooGroup is set for open, public viewing of the message archives, then you need only to add the extension "messages?rss=1" to the complete URL and you have a full RSS feed for that YahooGroup. As simple as that. Here is one easy example: Nancy White's great Online Facilitation discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/ has now a new public RSS feed available here.

Creating a Yahoogroups RSS feed is indeed possible but unless the email being sent to MailByRSS has your specified "To:" field complete, it will not be processed by MailByRSS and considered Spam.

You can work around this limitation in at least three ways:

1) Create a forward email that is subscribed to the YahooGroup. The forward email then takes the YahooGroup messages received and forwards them to the specific MailByRSS address you have been assigned.

2) Create a rule in your Outlook or other email client so that when you receive an email from that Yahoogroup, that email is immediately forwarded to your MailByRSS address.

3) Utilize Dodgeit.com http://www.dodgeit.com, which is a new free online all-catch email basket and RSS generator.

Steps are as simple as:

a) Got to Yahoogroups and set as a member yourselectedname@dodgeit.com.

b) Post a message to the YahooGroup.

c) Go to Dodgeit.com and input yourselectedname and then click on Check Mail.

d) See mail and see also RSS feed URL under the orange tag XML displayed on that page.

This will do it.

Robin G.

There is a problem when applying the above to YahooGroups which makes it look like nothing is working. Yahoo groups does not put any address in the TO line except the GROUP owner. SO when MailByRSS opens the email it has no idea where the post is to be published too. So it thinks it is spam, and it deletes it.

MAILbyRSS is not a series of inidividual mailboxes, but one large catch all. MAILbyRSS reads the ID in the TO line and files appropriately. No TO line and the message gets deleted as SPAM.

One work around is a rule on your client email that forwards it to your specific MAILbyRSS accountID. That is. As soon as you get a message from the selected YahooGroup you can automatically send it to your specific MailbyRSS mailbox without any problem at all.

I hope this helps.

That's a good idea. I was actually thinking (inspired by Mac OS X Mail's threading feature) about writing a script that would turn a mailing list into a flat forum format, but I never got around to it.

Robin:

That's a cool service.

I have been using Bloglines as my RSS reader which also has a e-mail to RSS service.

But here the interesting thing is that it will generate a unique feed for any YahooGroup which can be then circulated. That's cool.

Suhit