Create a mailing list using RSS

Because mailing lists are so handy they have been around for a while now. There’s a very simple way of creating your own mailing list without purchasing any special software or programming yourself- simply using some pre-existing RSS tools.

There are a couple services that offer e-mail to RSS feed creation. The best one I’ve found is MailBucket. All you have to do to use this is set up your feed, and it will give you the e-mail address to send it to. This one is good because it includes an anti-spam feature that would otherwise make this whole process worthless because it could be overloaded with spam.

Of course, you can receive the RSS feed in any way you want, but the purpose of this article is to describe the creation of a mailing list. This is where the second step begins. By using a pre-existing RSS to e-mail program you give it your feed and let it send the content by e-mail to whoever wants to receive it. One such service is Blog Alert. What makes this service nice is that it will create a widget you can add to your website to promote your mailing list.

If you subscribe to my RSS feed you will get more helpful articles like this one.

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