Day dream

rafael on 2003-02-19T22:26:52

Is there such a thing as a RSS2nntp converter ?
Or something ?

(Title of this journal entry by Duke Ellington)


rss2mail

Robrt on 2003-02-19T23:03:17

I have a rss2mail program that I've been meaning to throw on CPAN. It could easily be modified to do nntp.

Re:rss2mail

rafael on 2003-02-20T10:07:06

You mean, something that posts to an NNTP server what it gets from an RSS feed ? What I had in mind was more like a fake NNTP server I could connect to with any newsreader. But your hack sounds cool.

On the other hand I could just write a simplistic tool that throws RSS feeds in a slrnpull spool.

Re:rss2mail

Robrt on 2003-02-20T14:49:24

Yes.

Re:rss2mail

ajt on 2003-03-17T08:59:14

Interesting idea! I'm sure you know that XML::RSS has been updated quite a bit recently and is now somewhat more usable. The Perl-RSS group have fixed many of the bugs, and it's more usable now than for a while.

Recently there has been interest in adding other modules to the XML::RSS namespace from other people, so now would be a good time to add yours ;-)

The design for XML::RSS TNG hasn't begun yet, but I suspect that the current XML::Parser base of the module will get ripped out at some point and be replaced with something else.