Subj : RSS Reader as a Door
To   : All
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Sun Jan 31 2021 07:44 am

I'm the sort of person that values function over form.  I like making things
work, regardless of how pretty it is.  After I'm happy with the
functionality, then I'll worry about making it pretty.

That being said, I've experimented a little bit with Linux terminal cinsole
games as doors. It looks like it works ok, with at least some if the old text
adventure tyoes, although I haven't tried saving and going back to it later
yet.

Now I'm wondering about doing the same with something like Newsboat, or some
similar RSS reader.  I'm fairly sure that functionallt, I could get it to
work, however my question is whether it would be possible to do so with
unique new message pointers for each user.

Or, barring that, I need a much better understanding of the autoposting of
Ttext files, where I could get a way to export each entry in the RSS feed to
a message on the BBS. Each particular feed being it's own message area.

My ultimate goal is finding ways to provide unique content for my BBS that I
haven't seen a million times before. 

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