Re: nnslashdot usage

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:

> Hi -- curious to hear how people are using nnslashdot.  Following the
> manual, I am able to browse the slashdot server, and subscribe to topics as
> groups, and then read them.  However, this seems clunky to me (possibly b/c
> I've only done it three times now :)).  What seems more aligned with Gnus'
> current situation is to have ONE group for nnslashdot, which got new topics
> as articles, and the followup posts to the topic would be threaded under the
> initial topic article.  This would allow normal scoring, would minimize the
> number of changes in the *Group* buffer, and in general, would be less
> strange to my eyes.

nnrss:Slashdot lists topics as articles, but it doesn't show the
followups.  The all-in-one solution is difficult to implement, because
of the difficulties in maintaining the map of article numbers.

ShengHuo