Denis Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Bokma wrote: >> Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> John Bokma wrote: >>>> http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ >>> >>> Great. How can I, the user, choose, how to use a mod on a given web >>> server? >> >> Ask the admin? > > And that is, in your opinion, completely comparable to running your > own, private client?
Oh, but if you want your own private client, feel free to come up with one. I for one would welcome an XML interface to for example phpBB. (Not sure if such a thing exists). So I agree with you for a part. However, how many people, do *need* a kill file? Most boards have active moderators. Also, in my experience, most boards are a tighter knit crowd with less need for kill filing. > Is the admin obliged to install the mod? No, but in my experience, they listen. > Is the admin > even reachable? Of course. >> Otherwise: fetch HTML, parse it, restructure it, and have the >> application run a local webserver. Python, Perl, piece of cake. > > You seem to be forgetting that we are mainly talking about end users > here No, I am not. Most end users of those boards don't *require* what you want, you look at a board from a programmers point of view. And hence, as a programmer you *can* do such things. > who most probably will not have the sufficient expertise to do all moreover he/she doesn't care. > that. And even if they do, it's still time consuming. If I am not happy with my Usenet client, I have the same problem. I like Xnews for example, but AFAIK it's closed source. I don't know of any open source Windows client that comes close to Xnews. It's time consuming because there is (yet) no need for it. When I started to use Usenet there where only a handful of clients (IIRC), nn and another one (rn?) are the only ones that I can recall. Like I said, it's not that hard to create a SOAP/XML-RPC interface to, for example phpBB. Maybe it's already there. The tools are there. And a next step could be to create a wrapper, one end acts as a local nntp server, the other end talks using XML with phpBB. Once that's written, you could use (probably within limits) a Usenet client :-) Now this seems to be cross posted in several comp.lang groups. Anyone? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list