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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:45:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Timothy Gould wrote:
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> > 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.
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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 case).
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 Lugnet. Doing everything via HTTP and (potentially) RSS has the
advantage that it is really unlikely to be 'antiquated' or unsupported in the
near future.
> > 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.
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> IIRC the internal data structure of Lugnet _is_ a newsgroup storage system.
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> Play well,
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> Jacob
Well, perhaps Lugnet is converting the other way around but my point still
stands. If you can convert one way, you can reverse the proccess (given a
lossless transformation which I think RSS could provide).
Tim
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| (...) You seem to make the same mistakes as many other people: a) RSS and NNTP are two completely different things. RSS is a data format. NNTP is a data transport protocol. b) Things aren't bad, just because they're old. (...) NNTP will not become (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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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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