Re: lynx-dev GNKSA review of Lynx 2.8

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> 1. is there a C level toolkit for writing GNKSA approved news readers?  That
> would certainly make it easier for someone to come along with the patches
> to improve lynx.

There's something called the GNKSA-lib, check the GNKSA tools 
page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-tools.html


In my view, there are three possible things to do about the news 
part of lynx:

1) do nothing. This leaves us with a good WWW browser with 
attached to it a very miserable news reader, which doesn't even 
allow posting RFC-compliant articles and strongly encourages bad 
net-behaviour.

2) address the more urgent GNKSA requirements. This will give us 
a good WWW browser and a fair newsreader but will require some 
work to be done.

3) remove the "post message" feature. This way, Lynx still enables 
users to follow news: links in web pages, but with disabling the 
post feature, Lynx will not qualify for a GNKSA-evaluation and this 
prevents harm done by any user using the post feature.


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