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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Web Forums Vs Usenet
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:16:44 +0100
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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

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.