From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus + emacs.stackexchange Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 05:39:45 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87twvq82ou.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87fv7hoxnd.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mw1luz3o.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87a8xjpxdh.fsf@gmail.com> <87ioc61r9c.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430905220 14588 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2015 09:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 09:40:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 06 11:40:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YpvoR-0001sN-Oh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 11:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YpvoQ-0001Za-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 05:40:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net 291uUVhV/NyvTM57jXx5yG3qXGW+gVaVP5jZMobwv+Jzh2PmBIWOXb4sDA/kCfddhAWNOOpSqF2ZWRVdqpxMlQ== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 09:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="+IKWBzeUJ7zW3u52xXwxdN5k/MzJyT/xqoES0dBic58+LnJUiybsMbe43m+E0OQoqSPMnA45o+gJTcoqA4+EK/OEVgC0IR7J2/qtwiOEXCh93Fu+tjmsr5OuvHnpm+wF"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:kfLUQ0Sx8OowqOFH/W/aYvwleLY= sha1:SUDx9SfUofTu6vVXKqM+tMC//W8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211955 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104239 Archived-At: On Wed, 06 May 2015 02:30:55 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: EB> If you check out EB> nntp: news.gwene.org EB> and make a search for "comments", you see that many EB> blogs have a separate feed for comments. I can't see EB> why the SX question solution can't be easily extended EB> to include answers and comments, but I don't know EB> the details. EB> The best solution would be to have only one feed that EB> would result in a threaded Gnus summary where SX EB> answers and comments (and blog comments) were EB> subordinated the question (just like we get it for EB> mail/listbots/Usenet). EB> Because it is such a natural thing to wish for, EB> I suspect we are not the first to react like this and EB> probably there are technical complications. It looks EB> simple but because it isn't done I suspect it isn't. I've suggested it, but it's incredibly complicated to make a generic solution for posting to a comment feed. Gwene would have to support potentially hundreds of comment feed formats; the formatting and other things would be broken. But this is still theoretically possible, whereas... EB> The step after that would be to be able to answer (and EB> add comments) just by replying to the OP as we are EB> also accustomed to. Even just for SX sites it would be very difficult to make a NNTP-to-SX gateway without the active participation and commitment of the people who write and maintain those sites' software. Most sites nowadays make it hard to post mechanically on purpose since the potential for abuse is very high. Ted