Quick LWN update [LWN.net]

Quick LWN update

Posted Mar 27, 2003 11:19 UTC (Thu) by mwh (subscriber, #582)
In reply to: Quick LWN update by vmlinuz
Parent article: Quick LWN update

Hmm, lwn by mail...

Thinking about it, I'd love to read LWN via nntp. LWN articles would be news articles and you could even have comments as threaded followups.

This would of course increase the fraction of my day spent staring at emacs, a quantity which seems to have no upper bound...

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Quick LWN update

Posted Mar 27, 2003 18:01 UTC (Thu) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link]

Excellent idea, I too would love to be able to read LWN through NNTP. This could be a bonus service to subscribers.

(Emacs/Gnus specific: If this doesn't happen for some reason maybe an nnlwn backend could be created. An LWN backend for w3m's nnshimbun might be another way to do it but I haven't installed nnshimbun yet so I am not sure what exactly its capabilities are)

Quick LWN update

Posted Mar 28, 2003 1:54 UTC (Fri) by lotzmana (subscriber, #3052) [Link]

Having NNTP access will keep alive the conversation that usually follows on article posts.

At the moment you read an article, read the comments, reply or you yourself put a new comment, but this is usually done once per article and only rarely the page is revisited to check how a conversation thread evolves.

With a news reader I can be current to all the conversations. To me it seems that NNTP is the natural approach to this problem.

The best of both worlds would be to have the web interface backed by NNTP and vise-versa, anything posted through NNTP will appear on the web page as well.

NNTP backend could be a good feature to attract subscribers.

Quick LWN update

Posted Mar 30, 2003 16:25 UTC (Sun) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

> Having NNTP access will keep alive the conversation that usually follows on
> article posts.

> At the moment you read an article, read the comments, reply or you yourself
> put a new comment, but this is usually done once per article and only
> rarely the page is revisited to check how a conversation thread evolves.

Right. However, it doesn't mean the NNTP interface is needed; just the current one lacks usability. As a very minimum, I'd like to get an email notification whenever somebody replies to my post (or probably another one in its thread). This optional feature may be enabled by checking an appropriate box next to the "Publish comment" button. And/or, I'd like to be able to mark as "hot" an article - which would result, again, in the email notification whenever a comment to it is posted.

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Posted Aug 28, 2003 12:08 UTC (Thu) by mwh (subscriber, #582) [Link]

Oh, the irony: I've just read the followups to my comment for the first time.

Noone will ever read this, of course.

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Posted Feb 15, 2008 18:43 UTC (Fri) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link]

It could happen.