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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

#579 — Getting news on Usenet: Gmane/Gwene

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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#678

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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#680

On 2014-02-21, cykros@devio.us <cykros@devio.us> wrote:
> 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...

Not necessarily!  I'm less familiar with Tin, but SLRN has a keybinding
that shows you a numbered list of URLs it identified in the body of a
post (by regex, I assume), and you can choose to follow them.  SLRN
opens up the URL in a console web browser or XWindows browser; the SLRN
config file lets you specify one for each scenario.  I find it a very
effective way to browse the news, and of course links, lynx, and w3m
(etc) are lightning fast because they ignore graphics, javascript, etc.

I assume Tin has something similar.  If not, perhaps you could pipe it
to a shell script of some sort?

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