Google groups is clumsy and does not isolate the data in a manner that would
be useful for forensic purposes although in that context Google groups does
prove useful as an archive where one could reliably state the data could not
realistically be altered by a 3rd party. Its clumsy to carry Google into a
lawyer's office or a court room for example and use the data in a manner
that would be conducive to illustrating a given topical thread but given a
tool that could make a 'copy' of such data could prove very valuable.
Furthermore, Google groups does not provide a means to reuse the data in a
web page.
Danny, if you are going to put the effort into working with Usenet I would
suggest you think about develping this solution before you take on building
yet another reader. I contend a 'reader' in this context is an opportunity
waiting to happen.
I'm still a lame and too busy working on a demanding project to try this
myself. As I would like the opportunity to re-publish a topic posted to a
newsgroup in a website I know I would be interested in such a solution
myself.
<%= Clinton Gallagher
"Danny Tuppeny" <gr****@dannytuppeny.commmmmm> wrote in message
news:43***********************@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
What's wrong with Google groups? ;o)
I'm in the process of building a newsreader (similar to Outlook Express)
and started from this tutorial:
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive451.html
I don't imagine it'd be too hard for you to adopt..? Store your messages
in classes referencing their parents/children, and it should be quite
simple to recurse through outputting some XML!
"clintonG" <cs*********@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com> wrote in message
news:un*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... It has become painfully clear to me how useful it would be if it were
possible to grab an entire topical tree from a specific newsgroup and
archive it as XML enabling it to be republished in a webpage.
I wonder if this is even possible?
<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/