From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 13 08:34:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F69016A417 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:34:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred.letter@lacave.net) Received: from talisker.lacave.net (talisker.lacave.net [217.145.39.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CECC613C478 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:34:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred.letter@lacave.net) Received: (qmail 24995 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2008 08:08:15 -0000 Received: from 212-100-178-134.adsl.easynet.be (HELO laphroaig.lacave.local) (212.100.178.134) by talisker.lacave.net with SMTP; 13 Jan 2008 08:08:15 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:10:14 +0100 From: "F. Senault" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.99.29) Professional Organization: Freelance gourou X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1763386364.20080113091014@lacave.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <200801131559.32933.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <200801131107.15267.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200801131559.32933.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "F. Senault" List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:34:58 -0000 Sunday, January 13, 2008, 6:29:03 AM, you wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote: >> > Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper.... >> >> Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds. > That doesn't let you go both ways though, although just being able to > browse forums in a usenet like way would be much nicer.. Well, you can find RSS to Usenet gateways. I've written a small one myself and I'm routinely using it (http://news.lacave.net/rss - the page is in french, but there's an english INSTALL file). HTH, Fred -- ...it's about damn time that all of us who actually give a damn about Usenet stand up and tell the people who don't to fuck off and die. (Russ Allbery)