Re: reading the cfd-online-forum with Gnus

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hello,

Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>
>> On  9 jun 2004, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know to much about RSS feeds, but somehow I have to
>>> sell him the idea to offer RSS feeds for the readers. So what
>>> advantages does the website manager have when he offers a RSS
>>> feed? Is it just that Gnus-Reader can take a nice look at his
>>> page? Is it hard and time consuming to implement?
>>
>> This is absolutely not time consuming according to my knowledge,
>> this can be done in less time that is took to tell :)
>>
>> For the advantage, I will take my experience. I find it less
>> intrusive not to have to shoot a huge program to check if there
>> is anyting interesting to read about.
>>
>> RSS is primarily to syndicate site between them. So offering a
>> RSS or RDF feed gives the opportunity to others to present part
>> of a site on another site. AFAIK, it is the primary goal at
>> RSS/RDF syndication.
>>
>> There are plenty of advantages to offer a RSS to their readers.
>>
>
> Thanks! I just mailed to the Webmaster. I'll tell you about it.

I forgot to tell you the response from the webmaster:

 "The discussion forums at CFD Online are run using webbbs
 (see http://awsd.com/scripts/webbbs/index.shtml). As far as 
 I know there are no RSS interfaces for webbbs."

And this is the actually the problem, webbs doesn't have a RSS interface and
there are no plans to change the software right-now.
Maybe, anybody did a patch for webbs!?

Greetings!
-- 
Fabian Braennstroem
Berlin / Duesseldorf