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reply dude! sweet! <dude sweet.com> writes:
wouldn't a web-based news-reader solve this problem? 
I've just did a little search and found: 
a) http://opensource.polytechnique.org/banana/
from the above site: "Banana is a fast (really fast) web-based NNTP library
with server side caching "
b) http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-net-nntp - a Ruby NNTP lib. How hard
would it be to create a RoR app with this lib already providing you an API to
access NNTP servers? Should be simple enough, I think.
3) for all the python lovers here - I'm sure an equivalent python lib exists
that could be used with something like django (or whatever the python
equivalent for RoR is).

2eurocent, please :)
Dec 11 2008
parent reply Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:
dude! sweet! wrote:

 wouldn't a web-based news-reader solve this problem? 
 I've just did a little search and found: 
 a) http://opensource.polytechnique.org/banana/
 from the above site: "Banana is a fast (really fast) web-based NNTP library
with server side caching "
 b) http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-net-nntp - a Ruby NNTP lib. How hard
would it be to create a RoR app with this lib already providing you an API to
access NNTP servers? Should be simple enough, I think.
 3) for all the python lovers here - I'm sure an equivalent python lib exists
that could be used with something like django (or whatever the python
equivalent for RoR is).
 
 2eurocent, please :)



We have one:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=digitalmars.D
Dec 12 2008
next sibling parent reply "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Robert Fraser
<fraserofthenight gmail.com> wrote:

 dude! sweet! wrote:

 wouldn't a web-based news-reader solve this problem? I've just did a
 little search and found: a) http://opensource.polytechnique.org/banana/
 from the above site: "Banana is a fast (really fast) web-based NNTP
 library with server side caching "
 b) http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-net-nntp - a Ruby NNTP lib. How hard
 would it be to create a RoR app with this lib already providing you an API
 to access NNTP servers? Should be simple enough, I think.
 3) for all the python lovers here - I'm sure an equivalent python lib
 exists that could be used with something like django (or whatever the python
 equivalent for RoR is).

 2eurocent, please :)



 We have one:
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=digitalmars.D



We have one that doesn't work right.  The idea is to create a _new_
one which does ;)
Dec 12 2008
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Robert Fraser

 We have one:
 http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=digitalmars.D



 We have one that doesn't work right.  The idea is to create a _new_
 one which does ;)



It's open source. You could fix it <g>.
Dec 12 2008
parent jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> writes:
== Quote from Jarrett Billingsley (jarrett.billingsley gmail.com)'s article

 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Walter Bright
 <newshound1 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 It's open source. You could fix it <g>.






I wonder if some of the fixes would really take that much effort for someone
who's experienced with PHP. (I don't have much experience
with PHP, and I'm probably too lazy to find the time to work on it anyway.)

My pet peeve about the webnews interface is how sometimes the "Recent messages
in this thread" list gives links to the wrong newsgroup
(e.g., digitalmars.D instead or digitalmars.D.announce). I'm sure fixing it
would require wading through some code, but I suspect it
wouldn't be that hard to fix.

Another way that webnews could be enhanced is to have a link to the
corresponding post in pnews. For most purposes, webnews is superior
to pnews, but sometimes pnews is helpful too (e.g., header information). I bet
that'd be pretty easy.

Also, I'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to get the fixes published on
digitalmars.com if I spent the time working on it. For example, the old "D"
newsgroup is still not available from webnews.
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=46629

By the way, after all these years, the http://www.opend.org/ website is still
"investigating how to hook the D frontend into the GCC
backend". Maybe someone should tell them about GDC. ;)
Dec 15 2008
prev sibling parent "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 It's open source. You could fix it <g>.



It's also PHP.. good luck finding someone who _wants_ to fix it ;)
Dec 12 2008