Subj : Re: FTN  / Usenet to a new BBS
To   : tenser
From : Al
Date : Mon May 11 2020 11:55:08

>> I haven't done it myself but I believe synchronet supports nntp feeds as
>> well as users but I'm not sure how that is done.

> Ah, that's too bad.  I mean, potentially cool, but a bit
> of a bummer that there's not a lot of experience here.

There is experience here if you can find it. I might suggest Nelgin if we can pull him out of the woodwork or get a hold of him. This seems right up he alley and he could likely answer question without needing to look them up.

> Fat-dragon.org uses an NNTP server as the main messaging
> repository.  I wrote ginko to act as a binkp mailer, but
> honestly have been so busy that I haven't had time to
> flesh out the gating to/from the NNTP server; so I get a
> bunch of maildir files that pile up.  It's not hard code
> to write, I don't think, just tedious and I haven't had
> time.

> In many ways, it'd be much simpler just to accept an NNTP
> feed from somewhere.

That's probably doable. If Nelgin or other Synchronet folks don't jump in here we might need to direct our questions directly to them.

Nelgin?

Echicken?

Is an nntp feed doable with newslink.js?

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