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Something more useful than nnslashdot (since there's very little of
interest to read in the Slashdot comments, really) is Ultimate
Bulletin Board.  This is a very popular web bulleting board software,
and is used on also sites where people seem to have something to
actually discuss.

I'm going to try to implement nnultimate in a smarter manner than
nnslashdot -- no regexps, but use `w3-parse-buffer' instead and use
the output from that to glean info from the web pages.

The Ultimate boards usually have this structure:

Ultimate
  Forum
    Topic
      Article
      Article
    Topic
      Article
  Forum
    Topic
    Topic

This doesn't quite fit in with the Gnus way of doing things, where we
only have groups (topics) and articles (articles), but no "group of
groups" thing.

The natural thing to do would be to "flatten" this hierarchy, so that
nnultimate just gives out a list of topics (groups), regardless of
forums.  But on Ultimates with lots of forums, this means that a `g'
will do a whole bunch of web requests, which will be really slow.  So
I think there will have to be a way to let users specify which forum
subsets they are interested in...

Anyway, could people post URLs to Ultimates around the world so that I 
can test on a bunch of them?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen