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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Twitter and Facebook
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwwkya4k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj6cn5bz.fsf@lifelogs.com>

Hi,

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:12:18 +0200 ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: 
>
> LC> In a similar vain (but more useful IMO), there are all these web forums
> LC> (PHPBB et al., e.g., <http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/>), which
> LC> ought to be accessible via our favorite newsreader.  :-)
>
> It's sad how many times NNTP has been badly reimplemented...

+1

> I think it's a resource drain to interface with web forums, unless the
> person that implements the code is willing to maintain it.  Otherwise
> we end up with another fragile nnweb backend.

Yes, though I think the forums can be read via RSS, so perhaps the only
extra thing to implement would be posting.

Besides, there’s hope because there are other people out there trying to
extract content from web pages, e.g., Weboob <http://weboob.org/>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05  9:04 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-05  9:15 ` Leonidas Tsampros
2010-10-05 10:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-10-05 13:21   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-05 14:28     ` Adam Sjøgren
2010-10-05 14:42     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-10-05 15:29     ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-05 10:16 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-05 16:52   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-05 18:53     ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-05 19:52     ` Jouni K. Seppänen
2010-10-05 20:19       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-05 13:18 ` Ted Zlatanov

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