Re: [syndication] Re: Revisting NNTP?

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <99rbiq+aacb@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>Hmmm, my point of using NNTP was to provide two things.  One is the 
>ability to use better viewing engines such as found in many NNTP 
>compatible readers.  The other is to take advantage of several search 
>and filtering engines that can interact with an NNTP server.  

Hmmm. I was thinking of NNTP as a distribution mechanism. The various
RSS aggregators go to a lot of effort to take the raw XML and present it
in a human readable form. If you're expecting a News reader to do this,
you're handing off the display transformation to the news source, which
seems a bit unfair! You'll then need some agreement among all the
sources about how to do this. The alternative would require a
specialized news reader that understands RSS XML and does something
useful with it.

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