Re: [Pan-users] Web forums

[Brian Morrison]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:32:17 -0400 (EDT) in
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<address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > at this very moment I am crawling through Slashdots disordered
> > threads. Is there a way to read /. with pan? I ask this because I
> > know of 1 news reader which can read maling lists and certain web
> > fora like slashdot: Gnus, which is pat of Emacs. But I have just no
> > ambition to start figuring out how Gnus or Emacs work :)
> 
> pan is a nntp client, the fact that it even does mail minimally is an
> abomination ;-)
> 
> I certainly don't want suppose for this, but as they say feel free to
> submit a patch.

TBH don't bother. The whole point of nntp and Usenet is that it works
without being on line, threads properly and is not the web. Web fora are
an abomination, they are glitzy, unthreaded and not worth the paper they
aren't written on.

If anyone does write a patch for this, please put it somewhere else than
in the standard Pan source.

-- 

Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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