Re: Revisting NNTP?

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> 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.

Ok, so what's more work; extend an NNTP reader to use XML or create 
and entirely new client from scratch?  Then build a whole new series 
of server extensions to speak to your container of the items?

No, you don't need any agreements between any of them.  I'm not 
looking at the dustribution aspects of NNTP feeds in the Usenet 
sense.  I'm looking at it from the perspective of a corporate 
workgroup environment.  This is an environment that needs a compound 
set of features.  Routing news items into an NNTP store that's 
accessible from a full-featured client.

-Bill Kearney