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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.