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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:25:05 GMT
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Timothy Gould wrote:
> 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.
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 case).
> 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.
IIRC the internal data structure of Lugnet _is_ a newsgroup storage system.
Play well,
Jacob
--
Sal Colibri (from Roger Leloup's "Yoko Tsuno"):
http://lego.jacob-sparre.dk/Transport/Fly/Colibri/
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| (...) Why? For futureproofing. I suspect that NNTP will decrease its 'marketshare' as time goes on whilst RSS will increase. I could be wrong about that but from reading this tree, it seems I am not the only person who has dumped NNTP for reading (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| --SNIP-- (...) --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 (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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