From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72626 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Twitter and Facebook Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87fwwkya4k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87aamtymm5.fsf@gnu.org> <87lj6cn5bz.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286289753 20760 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 14:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:42:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20998@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 16:42:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P38is-0003oX-FI for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P38im-0008JO-6n; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P38ik-0008J6-S6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P38ie-0000uu-KF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P38id-0008NG-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P38ia-0003gO-KE for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:42:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 14 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rp0JPC4FMZipGWkRSbW1VoRipVg= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72626 Archived-At: Hi, Ted Zlatanov 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., ), 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 . Thanks, Ludo’.