The Bottom Line
Aggie is most useful as an RSS to email gateway, allowing you to read and organize news in your email client. The HTML display produces by Aggie is nice, but much less useful.
Pros
- Aggie can send news via email
- Displays news using customizable HTML templates
- Aggie can extract news from non-syndicated sites
Cons
- Aggie doesn't allow flexible update schedules
- HTML display of news not very useful, email broken
- Aggie contains little configuration help
Description
- Aggie is an RSS feed reader that outputs to either HTML pages or sends news via email.
- Additionally to reading RSS, Aggie can extract news headlines from non-syndicated web sites, too.
- Aggie sends individual emails for each item or groups them by feed or title.
- News are also displayed as HTML pages using a customizable template.
- Aggie stores subscribed feeds in OPML files for easy exchange, lets you subscribe via drag and drop.
- Aggie can place a link to the reader's blog/site in the referrer log of syndicated feeds.
- Aggie supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP and requires the .NET framework.
Guide Review - Aggie 1.0 - RSS News Feed Reader
Aggie provides two interfaces to the news it aggregates. Either you read them in a flexibly customizable and stylable, but still cumbersome HTML page, or you make Aggie send the news via email. If you choose the latter path, you can use all your email client's tools to organize, file, archive and filter RSS feeds.
Unfortunately, the email gateway is slightly broken currently and might not work for you. While Aggie comes with a simple interface, the lack of documentation can make its configuration a bit confusing, and while Aggie comes with a command line tool that can be used to schedule news updates, there's no way to schedule individual channels flexibly.
All in all, Aggie is a nice, but somehow unsatisfactory news to email gateway.
