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Re: Web Forums Vs Usenet

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Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2023-11-16 06:52, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2023-11-15 22:34, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Anyway linking web forums to news servers is actually something I
>> asked about in news.software.nntp last month. Presumably you mean
>> where it's part of the forum configuration, but I'm interested in
>> scraping forums client-side and turning their posts into news
>> articles in a news spool, which could then be hosted over NNTP or
>> browsed directly in a news reader. From that discussion I gather
>> that this hasn't been done before. I'm not decided whether to write
>> the software for it myself or not. Keeping up with forum software
>> changes would make it an endless project.
> 
> The old openSUSE web forum was linked to a private nntp server (Novell 
> infraestructure). You could read or post on any of the two, and it would 
> be seen on both. The forum software was vbulletin, if memory serves, 
> with a custom made bridge to the nntp server (vBulletin USENET gateway, 
> I see on saved old messages).
> 
> Then the forum was migrated to another software (vbulletin is not 
> gratis), and then to discourse, I think. The gateway could not be 
> migrated, but we believe it is feasible

Yes I believe there are a few forum platforms that have/had support
for a NNTP gateway, including at least one borderline popular free
one.

But I'm not an admin, moderator, or even a frequent contributor, to
any of these forums that I'd like to read via NNTP. Of course I'm
not, I don't like web forums! So there's no way that I'm going to
sway people running a web forum to set up a NNTP gateway for my
sake, even if it might only take a bit of configuration. I'd
probably have a better argument trying to get them to set up a
mailing list interface and then use Gmane to access it via NNTP,
but I'm sure I'd get nowhere with that either.

The only practical way to do it is to not involve the forum
operators at all and just scrape the pages from my end then convert
the forum posts into something a Usenet news reader can view. So
that's the approach I'm interested in at the moment. Posting via a
news reader would be neat too, but I'd be mostly satisfied with a
read-only view.

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Re: Web Forums Vs Usenet (was: tint2 keeps crashing) Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-11-16 15:52 +1000
  Re: Web Forums Vs Usenet "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-16 22:16 +0100
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