RSS is the new Usenet
There's a strong parallel between Forté Agent and NetNewsWire.
They share an almost identical interface layout: "groups" (feeds) on the left, "articles" (posts) on the upper right, "body" (content) on the lower right.
It's like I'm reading Usenet all over again, except this time it's cooler: you look for groups you like, subscribe to them, and watch for new articles.
I'd like to see a gateway that turns RSS feed articles into NNTP posts; imagine alt.rss.smartmobs, for instance, showing up in your local news feed.
Suddenly the technology of the news readers becomes available to the RSS crowd: easy ability to filter (killfiles!) and track unread posts come to mind immediately, with posting as a possible option. It also enables platforms without high-quality RSS readers to use existing high-quality NNTP readers.
Done properly, the gateway could represent comments as individual posts -- allowing the threading technology to come into play.
Add the ability to denote relationships between comments, and you've got the nested threaded discussion hierarchies many Usenet readers are accustomed to.
We're doing something that's been done before, improving a few things: machine-parsable feeds, common formats, decentralized listings.
Certainly ask for RSS as a feature in Agent 2 - it would be amazing!
Posted by: Chris | December 13, 2002 at 04:22 AM
Feature request submitted; good idea, thanks :)
Posted by: floating atoll | December 13, 2002 at 07:33 AM
http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
Found on Sweetcode...
Does just what you want... rss -> nntp
Posted by: Seth Cohn | May 17, 2003 at 05:26 PM