Subj : RSS and Podcasts
To   : Digital Man
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 11:05 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: RSS and Podcasts
  By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Mon Sep 19 2005 09:01 pm

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 >   To: Sam Alexander
 >   Re: RSS and Podcasts
 >   By: Sam Alexander to All on Mon Sep 19 2005 11:59 am
 > 
 >  > Hey guys ,
 >  >
 >  > Just curious..  I'm big into podcasts and RSS feeds in general, and just
 >  > wondering how hard it'd be to integrate RSS content into the BBS or downl
 >  > podcast contents to file areas?  I'm not as savvy at programming as most
 >  > folks in here, but I know PHP rather well and I've done a fair bit in C++
 >  > over the years.  Are there any standard practices to write something that
 >  > integrates into Synchronet?
 > 
 > The best way to write something that integrates into Synchronet is via JS. S
 > http://synchro.net/docs/js.html for details. This is how the stock nntp/news
 > server, IRC daemon, newsgroup linking, list server, and other services and
 > modules were written.
 > 
 > You could also write something in C/C++, but it would be less "portable"
 > between OSes and versions of Synchronet.
 > 

Thanks for the info!!  I'll check this out tonight and start playing with 
it.  I've only written a few basic apps in JS and nothing network-aware.  
Might be a fun project!!!  THanks !

Sam

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