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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:35:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
Suzanne Rich Green wrote:
[snip]
Is there any such thing as a beefy rss feed? What if someone were to provide,
say, in addition to a standard rss feed, a deviation [gasp] which sneakilly
contained extra stuff specifically for an rss-to-nntp converter to use?[...]

What should the point be?  Would anybody ever try to run a threaded discussion
using RSS?  Isn't RSS better for seeding a discussion than for the actual
discussion?

This is great feedback, Jacob. Your responses make excellent points.

I agree that RSS is better for seeding discussion.

-Suz



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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) The term "RSS-to-NNTP" does not really make sense. RSS is a data format, whereas NNTP is a protocol. You can convert RSS-feeds (independently of their transport protocols) to plain text and post them to an appropriate newsgroup. But you can't (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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