From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72616 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Twitter and Facebook Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:21:04 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lj6cn5bz.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87aamtymm5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286285117 29347 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2010 13:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:25:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20988@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 15:25:16 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 1P37W8-0004Fd-08 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:16 +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 1P37W1-0007ce-TB; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:25:09 -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 1P37W0-0007cK-EQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P37Vz-0000V1-Fw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P37Vy-0007Lo-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P37Vw-0004Cq-3e for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eh2o8+4Fxa7hjqLXszsmf1H9CpQ= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72616 Archived-At: 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... 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. Ted