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Andy Eskilsson <andy.eskilsson@telelogic.se> writes:

> The support for reading Majordomo webarchives sounds great.. Now I
> only miss functionality to read web-boards, hmm this could be done
> through a nntp-talking program.. 

It can probably be done directly from nnlistserv, which is a child of
nnweb.  For each new site one has to define the following:

1) How to find an "overview" of which articles are available.  This is
usually an URL, or a set of URLS.

2) Write a function to glean the info from this overview.

3) Write a function to wash each article.

4) There is no number 4.

My guess is that number 2 and 3 will be general functions for each
type of web archive -- LISTSERV, Majordomo, etc.  Unless people like
fiddling heavily with these things.

The same goes for "web chats", or whatever they call those
monstrosities. 

Uhm...  I guess there should be a function for how to submit new
articles to these things as well.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen