Re: [Announce] New Gnus resources site: http://my.gnus.org

["Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net>]

* Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> "Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net> writes:
>> Comments and criticism welcome.

> It looks like something one ought to be able to read with nnslashdot,
> so I tried

>         B nnslashdot <ret> my.gnus.org <ret>

> All I got was a list of ancient slashdot articles.

Indeed, indeed. I just checked: slashdot uses an xml file whose format
is different from the ultramode.txt or the backend.php file my.gnus.org
uses. 

Example:

,----[ slashdot.xml ]
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><backslash
| xmlns:backslash="http://slashdot.org/backslash.dtd">
| 
|         <story>
|                 <title>I Won A Lawsuit Against A Spammer</title>
|                 <url>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/18/1251219</url>
|                 <time>2001-04-18 16:38:13</time>
|                 <author>timothy</author>
|                 <department>10-kozmo-dollars</department>
|                 <topic>doj</topic>
|                 <comments>141</comments>
|                 <section>yro</section>
|                 <image>topicdoj.jpg</image>
|         </story>
`----

,----[ backend.php ]
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
| 
| <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"
|  "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
| 
| <rss version="0.91">
| 
| <channel>
| <title>my.gnus.org</title>
| <link>http://my.gnus.org</link>
| <description>my.gnus.org</description>
| <language>en-us</language>
| 
| <item>
| <title>Forum "Sample Configurations" added</title>
| <link>http://my.gnus.org/article.php?sid=13</link>
| </item>
`----

,----[ ultramode.txt ]
| %%
| Screenshot Facility up
| /article.php?sid=3
| 2001-04-16 05:01:34
| robin
| The Gnus Newsreader
| 0
| gnus.gif
`----

Other differences that leap to my eye:

,----
| (defvoo nnslashdot-active-url "http://slashdot.org/search.pl?section=&min=%d"
|   "Where nnslashdot will fetch the active file from.")
`----

http://my.gnus.org/search.php?query=&topic=29 ?

,----
| (defvoo nnslashdot-comments-url "http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=%s&threshold=%d&commentsort=%d&mode=flat&startat=%d"
|   "Where nnslashdot will fetch comments from.")
`----

http://my.gnus.org/article.php?thold=0&mode=flat&order=0&sid=13 ?

,----
| (defvoo nnslashdot-article-url
|     "http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=%s&mode=nocomment"
|   "Where nnslashdot will fetch the article from.")
`----

http://my.gnus.org/article.php?mode=nocomments&sid=13

,----
| (defvoo nnslashdot-backslash-url "http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml"
|   "Where nnslashdot will fetch the stories from.")
`----

http://my.gnus.org/backend.php

Funnily enough, there are quite a few Nuke sites out there, so this
backend would actually make sense. IIRC, bbCode uses the same backend.
-- 
Robin S. Socha 
http://my.gnus.org/ - To boldly frobnicate what no newbie has grokked before.