FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

[F. Senault]

Sunday, January 13, 2008, 6:29:03 AM, you wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote:
>> > Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper....
>>
>> Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds.

> That doesn't let you go both ways though, although just being able to 
> browse forums in a usenet like way would be much nicer..

Well, you can find RSS to Usenet gateways.  I've written a small one
myself and I'm routinely using it (http://news.lacave.net/rss - the
page is in french, but there's an english INSTALL file).

HTH,

Fred
-- 
...it's about damn time that all of us who actually give a damn about
Usenet stand up and tell the people who don't to fuck off and die.
                                                          (Russ Allbery)