Re: [syndication] RSS Google News and Usenet ?

[Todd Slater <tslater@matc.tec.oh.us>]

Julian Bond wrote:

> Just received this. Can anyone help?
>
> The NanoAging Institute <info@nanoaging.com> wrote:
>
> > I use your system for providing news from google into a rss
> >
> > you can see here:
> >
> > http://www.nanoaging.com/webblogs.php at the end see Google News: ..
> >
> > But now I would like to offer not only google news, but also from 
> > usenet newsgroup, turn my newsgroups into RSS, rdf
> >
> > Is it possible? Do you know a service doing that somewhere, something 
> > like you ?
>
>
> I'm reminded again that Google only has the one API for the one 
> service[1] and no meta feeds for any of them. An API for images, groups 
> and froogle would be *so* useful.
>
> [1]Ignoring Blogger for the moment which I still don't think of as a 
> Google property.

If the person is set on Google I can't help, but if not there's the 
nntp2rss script (http://www.bitfolge.de/nntp2rss-en.html) which requires 
you to specify a news server. It will generate google links but google 
groups is usually way behind the news server so you get a lot of "thread 
not found" errors.

Todd

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