Continue Receiving Posts by E-mail? (Was: "Updating RSS Feeds")

Missing your e-mail fix of IEC Journal postings? There may be a reason.

As part of an upgrade of their system, RSS FWD (sometimes referred to as "RssFwd") sent out an e-mail last Friday (archived at their web site) announcing that subscribers would have to re-subscribe to their new system to continue receiving service. Learning that some users at his agency had mistakenly deleted the announcement e-mail as spam, the ever-alert Wayne Johnson drew the change to our attention.

As noted recently, IEC Journal recommends our users obtain updates via RSS readers. We do not endorse RSS FWD nor the similar service Feedblitz, but we provide information about them for the benefit of our users who find receiving updates by e-mail more convenient. We would prefer to operate our own mailing list, but resource constraints make it impractical at this time.

Some users have reported better satisfaction with the similar Feedblitz service (free, like RSS FWD). While we assume RSS FWD's service will improve as a result of their upgrade, those interested in exploring alternatives to RSS FWD may wish to experiment with Feedblitz. Our September 15 post has subscription information for both services. Let us know if you have feedback about either service you would like to share with other IEC members.

Again, thanks to Wayne for the tip. We live or die by the help from him and other unselfish IEC members.

Updated Oct. 1: A few small improvements, including more descriptive title.