Web-based message boards? nntmf ?

Web-based message boards? nntmf ?

[Arnd Kohrs]

Hi,

I saw that there are already some backends for web-based message
boards.  Today I checked out nnslashdot and it works fine.

Is there already work going on to do the same for other sites?
Particularly, I would like to have a nntmf (for the fool.com message
boards).  

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 *&@^.

CU
Arnd.
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Re: Web-based message boards? nntmf ?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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.  :-)

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Re: Web-based message boards? nntmf ?

[William M. Perry]

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.