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Re: Gateway for VC Forum posts to csa2
David Schmidt wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 3:46 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>> David Schmidt wrote:
>>> On 11/13/2012 3:21 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>>>> I am considering writing a gateway to copy vintage-computer.com/vcforum
>>>> posts to csa2 based on the RSS feed that is provided for the Apple II
>>>> forum
>>>> on the site. Any remarks on this idea?
>>>
>>> I'm not a fan. I participate in lots of fora, VC being only one. I'd
>>> hate for csa2 to become the sewer into which any and all splinter groups
>>> drain.
>>
>> The quality of discussions on the VC Apple II forum struck me as being
>> valuable (do you agree?), which is why I had the idea of gatewaying them
>> into csa2.
>
> Quality of discussion is one aspect to consider. I agree, it is good on
> VC - there are others with good signal-to-noise ratios too, like
> AppleFritter and 68kmla - and I suspect there is a lot of overlap of
> participants, too.
>
> I remain unswayed, though. I assume the traffic would be 2-way,
> otherwise it would be highly unuseful. I have no idea if Erik would
> want the extra incoming traffic, what that traffic would look like ("who
> is this 'usenet' fellow?") and so on.
I sent him a query email the other day and I'm waiting for a response. There
is an NNTP interface for vBulletin, which I have seen in action. I know that
it pulls posts from Usenet to the vBulletin forum; I don't know if it sends
posts from the forum to Usenet.
You are right, though, without his support it would almost certainly be
one-way. The only method I can think of to make it two-way on my own would
be truly dastardly: I'd have to write a program to intercept the Usenet
followups to VC forum posts, log in to the VC Forums with a special account
and make the post to the correct topic. Doable, but probably not worth the
effort. :-)
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