From: Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net>
Subject: Re: Can gnus interface with an online forum
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:03:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2llkijyly.fsf@c-a75372d5.036-4-67626721.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ad0yyb1d.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:11:10 -0500")
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> I've recently got active in several topical online forums. And am
> finding the interfaces provided are really a clunky way to do
> business.
So have I and I think that web forums are a step twenty years back in
time. The reason I think many like them is that so few nowadays have
their own computer account with email. They have to use a web interface
to email anyway so why not a web interface to the forums themselves?
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> Is there a way for gnus to interface with these things... It would
> really speed up reading and posting, which when strained thru a web
> interface can really be time consuming.
From what I can tell, phpBB and ubbthreads are the two dominant
forum engines. It should be possible to parse the websites á la the
webmail interface.
I don't think I have enough knowledge to implement it but I can sure
beta test it!
(How much wouldn't I love the folks that implemented a nntp or email
backend to the forum system? Just for the admins to plug in and then
for all of us old ones to start to use. I don't think it's hard to
implement from a technical point of view - it is matter of time [as
usual].)
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-26 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-26 16:11 Harry Putnam
2004-04-26 20:03 ` Jonas Steverud [this message]
2004-04-26 20:55 ` Raymond Scholz
2004-04-27 2:13 ` Chris Green
2004-04-27 17:19 ` Wes Hardaker
2004-05-03 5:54 ` Michael Widerkrantz
2004-05-06 13:20 ` Harry Putnam
2004-05-16 12:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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