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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Wouldn't it be neat if one could read /. without having to use a web
> browser?  nnslashdot could make a group out of each, er, "news" item,
> and then all the discussion could be articles in the groups.  And one
> could perhaps even follow up to messages in there.
> 
> I haven't looked at the /. html at all -- is there sufficient
> information in it to do stuff like that?

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

The actual parsing isn't really all that complicated. I currently
don't have posting inside the program (it spawns a web browser).

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