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Arnd Kohrs <kohrs@acm.org> writes:

> I guess it should be doable if I just take nnslashdot as an example.  Or
> is there a more documented approach?  E.g. a how-to-write backends.  Why
> did they have to reinvent usenet, arg *&@^.

There is stuff in the Gnus manual on writing backends, but the
web-based backends mostly follow the same form.  Just take
nnultimate.el, rename it and start hacking away at it.  nnslashdot is
probably simpler.  Less stuff like

(nth 2 (car (cdr (nth 2 contents))))

than nnultimate.  (w3 parse trees are very logical once you get used
to them.  :-)

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