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David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org> writes:

> I have a program that does this, kinda. It downloads articles and
> comments etc. See http://pike-community.org/sites/slashdot/

There is enough data in the topics/messages to uniquely identify them,
then?

... I've now had a look at the HTML, and it looks very
straightforward.  The articles even have IDs that are numerical.  It
should be fairly easy to create an nnslashdot backend.

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