From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: Web-based message boards? nntmf ?
Date: 01 Dec 1999 14:47:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <863dtma1er.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "01 Dec 1999 20:30:11 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Arnd Kohrs <kohrs@acm.org> writes:
>
> > I guess it should be doable if I just take nnslashdot as an example. Or
> > is there a more documented approach? E.g. a how-to-write backends. Why
> > did they have to reinvent usenet, arg *&@^.
>
> There is stuff in the Gnus manual on writing backends, but the
> web-based backends mostly follow the same form. Just take
> nnultimate.el, rename it and start hacking away at it. nnslashdot is
> probably simpler. Less stuff like
>
> (nth 2 (car (cdr (nth 2 contents))))
>
> than nnultimate. (w3 parse trees are very logical once you get used
> to them. :-)
Really? Cool. :)
-Bill P.
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1999-11-22 22:03 Arnd Kohrs
1999-12-01 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-12-01 19:47 ` William M. Perry [this message]
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