Re: [NTLK] News Readers

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jon Glass <jonglass@usa.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Goodwin, Greg P. <GoodwinG@aafes.com> wrote:
>> Courier is a web browser.  How did that work as a news reader?
>>
> Because Eckhart wrote the program that way? ;-) Seriously, when I was
> asking about a news reader, in particular, his Raissa RSS reader, he
> suggested using Courier instead. I believe he incorporated Raissa's
> capabilities into Courier. Here's a line from the Change Log:
>
> Version 0.7: Added RSS handling

The original question was regarding a newsgroup client, although he
did then ask what RSS is. Courier would qualify as a [syndication]
feed reader, but I think many people do refer to them as newsreaders.

Off the top of my head, I would say newsgroups are descendant from
email and syndication (RSS) feeds are descendant from HTML pages. RSS
feeds are XML files that exist on a server an list the most recent
updates to a particular web site or service. Sometimes full articles,
sometimes excerpts, sometimes comments, etc.

Newsgroup messages are usually stored on a regional server and
messages sent through it, IIRC. However, with syndication feeds, you
subscribe to them and your client goes out to each server, grabbing
the feeds you subscribed to, and storing them locally for reading at
your leisure. And you'd have to click through to the original site to
comment (if it's even offered as an option).

(Apologies in advance if my memory of newsgroup technology has been warped.)

Morgan Aldridge

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