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Getting news on Usenet: Gmane/Gwene

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Not sure if everyone knows this trick, but if we've got here an audience 
of techies who likes Usenet, it's worth mentioning so we can all help 
fill this place with interesting articles to discuss:

The Gmane project has for a long time taken mailing lists and made them 
available on Usenet, but the Gwene project (by the same team) is 
interesting to us: it takes RSS feeds and provides them over NTTP.

Point your newsreader to the news.gmane.org server.  You can use 
whatever user name you want because you won't be posting, just reading. 
  Here are some NTTP "newsgroups" whose content come from RSS feeds:

gwene.org.soylentnews : the Soylent feed (just created today)
gwene.com.ycombinator.news : the news.ycombinator feed (hacker news)
gwene.net.technocrat : Perens new technocrat.net site RSS
gwene.org.slashdot : Slashdot, stripped of HTML.

Pretty easy to monitor those feeds for interesting articles and post 
them to comp.misc for discussion.  This works for any site you want: go 
to www.gwene.org where you can input the URL of any RSS feed and have an 
NTTP "newsgroup" created.

Cool stuff.  Happy reading.

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Getting news on Usenet: Gmane/Gwene RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-19 16:21 +0000
  Re: Getting news on Usenet: Gmane/Gwene cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-21 19:07 +0000
    Re: Getting news on Usenet: Gmane/Gwene RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-21 20:33 +0000

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