Forgive me if this is something that would be simple and I’m just missing it—but we’ve been exploring the possibility of somehow introducing a “mailed to you” kind of blog.

With the increase of intrusive content filters in the workplace, we’re being contacted by more and more people who can’t get to a lot of blog websites.  It’s a sticky situation because we can support the idea that private businesses have a right to filter content, but the services they buy to filter content categorize sites as they see fit, and there is no ombudsmen type of way to overrule their decisions.

Is there something in pMachine (that I can’t think of) that would enable us to set up a mailing list of people who wanted new posts to be mailed to them?  It would be a combination of mailing list, something like an RSS feed (but feeding to e-mail) and a comment notification, but a post notification instead.

Ideas?

I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for, but Bloglet provides a notification e-mail service. However, i think it’s only a notification, and it’s only a once-per-day e-mail anyway.

I don’t think this is what you’re looking for, either, but there are online aggregator services such as Fastbuzz, Email RSS Aggregator, IzyNews, and Newsgator Email Edition that can convert RSS feeds into email. These still will basically be notification services because pMachine doesn’t provide the ability to put the full text of the post into the RSS file.

A non-email approach is to use an online aggregator like Bloglines that probably won’t be blocked. Again, though, the aggregator is using the RSS feed which doesn’t have full-text when generated by pMachine sites.

Thanks, Doug.  We checked into the Bloglines type solutions.  The internet filtering company, which shall not be named, categorizes these in a manner that puts them on the “unsafe” setting in most companies, too.  We wouldn’t want people to be members of “communities” now would we?

Really, this is all getting really ridiculous, but the only way to stop this nonsense is to find a long term solution for getting around it—making moot all the existing methods for Big Brother to block the flow.

Doug, I use Bloglines all the time, but I’d never heard of IzyNews before. Looks interesting.

EE has the ability for full text RSS fields.