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Re: Getting news on Usenet: Gmane/Gwene

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 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.


That is a neat trick...I could avoid needing both newsbeuter and tin running
at the same time, saving the need to flip between screens.  Downside is, opening
articles in a browser becomes a little more difficult...

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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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