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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:02:35 GMT
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--SNIP--
> You can convert RSS-feeds (independently of their transport protocols) to plain
> text and post them to an appropriate newsgroup. But you can't (as far as I can
> see) run a threaded discussion using RSS. What we do is that we get some
> external RSS feeds (news from BBC, DR and ÚF) and then discuss them directly in
> the newsgroups. The downside to that approach is that even when there
> occasionally is a feedback/discussion page for the news item, our discussion
> will not automatically end up there.
--SNIP--
I think you could run a threaded discussion running RSS. If you look at the RSS
2.0 specifications there is a tag <category> which could be used to categorise
each post as a subcategory of its parent. It's not as elegant as a true nested
structure but would maintain compatibility with the RSS specs.
You could then have an RSS to newsgroup converter (either by proxy or internally
or even externally to sit on the users computer) which would pass the
information into the correct NNTP transfer and newsgroup data formats. Note, I
don't know anything about how newsgroups work but if you can convert whats on
Lugnet to work with them, you must be able to convert other things.
This would also have the advantage that someone using an RSS aggregator could
choose a single message and follow its daughters.
It would also mean that coding could be kept quite separate, with all internal
information passed around as RSS and merely converted by different software
packages into a useful form. Thus, for example, if not many people wanted to use
Newgroups, they might have to write their own converter, but once done it would
just slot on nicely to the existing work.
Just some more thoughts,
Tim
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| (...) Yes. But why would anybody do that? NNTP is (IMO) the most logical transport protocol for RSS data anyway. That hack would only be needed if you transported RSS data over a non-threaded protocol like HTTP (which unfortunately often is the (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) 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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