Now that Google groups has been discontinued, is there a public
interface to access this group via the web? Not to post, but to simply
read, and without requiring a login or signup.
saitology9 <saitology9@gmail.com> wrote in news:urr171$rajs$1@dont-
email.me:
I have set up a web interface at https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper .
This works for all non-binary usenet groups, including comp.lang.tcl .
Anyone can read as a guest, but you can only post if you register.
On 01/03/2024 07:34, Colin Macleod wrote:
saitology9 <saitology9@gmail.com> wrote in news:urr171$rajs$1@dont-
email.me:
I have set up a web interface at https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper .
This works for all non-binary usenet groups, including comp.lang.tcl .
Anyone can read as a guest, but you can only post if you register.
Does it allow access to individual messages via an URL with the
message-id and no groupname? It will help users and therefore usenet a
lot because standard news: URIs can be configured on their computers to
open their browser at the requisite URL.
At that point, we can give network agnostic URIs in usenet articles, IRC chat, manpages, etc which will improve things because URLs are already failing all over the place as public sites are going dark.
I have set up a web interface at https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper .
This works for all non-binary usenet groups, including comp.lang.tcl .
Anyone can read as a guest, but you can only post if you register.
This site is implemented in Tcl. At present it uses CloudTk for the user interface. However I am now working on reimplementing it using plain html, partly because the present design does not work well for mobile devices.
For "URL" to a usenet article, there is http://al.howardknight.net/
which provides that service. Put in message ID, get back article
i.e., the first post in this thread below:
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Curr171%24rajs%241%40dont-email.me%3E
On 3/2/2024 11:32 AM, Rich wrote:
For "URL" to a usenet article, there is http://al.howardknight.net/
which provides that service. Put in message ID, get back article
i.e., the first post in this thread below:
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Curr171%24rajs%241%40dont-email.me%3E
What a weird and interesting service! I don't really get it. Even
weirder is that someone would know about it.
Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
Does it allow access to individual messages via an URL with the
message-id and no groupname? It will help users and therefore usenet a
lot because standard news: URIs can be configured on their computers to
open their browser at the requisite URL.
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Curr171%24rajs%241%40dont-email.me%3E
Archive the relevant ones at http://al.howardknight.net/ and pass
around the archive URL links.
saitology9 <saitology9@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/2/2024 11:32 AM, Rich wrote:
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Curr171%24rajs%241%40dont-email.me%3E
weirder is that someone would know about it.
One learns of it when one happens to be in another USENET group where
someone else posts those links. Just as you learned of it today.
On 01/03/2024 07:34, Colin Macleod wrote:
saitology9 <saitology9@gmail.com> wrote in news:urr171$rajs$1@dont-
email.me:
I have set up a web interface at https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper .
This works for all non-binary usenet groups, including comp.lang.tcl .
Anyone can read as a guest, but you can only post if you register.
Does it allow access to individual messages via an URL with the
message-id and no groupname? It will help users and therefore usenet a
lot because standard news: URIs can be configured on their computers to
open their browser at the requisite URL.
On 3/1/2024 2:34 AM, Colin Macleod wrote:
I have set up a web interface at https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper .
This works for all non-binary usenet groups, including comp.lang.tcl . Anyone can read as a guest, but you can only post if you register.
This site is implemented in Tcl. At present it uses CloudTk for the user interface. However I am now working on reimplementing it using plain html, partly because the present design does not work well for mobile devices.
Thanks for the info. This sounds like a useful service. As you noted, it doesn't allow any input on a mobile device. Please post an update when
it is ready.
saitology9 <saitology9@gmail.com> posted:
Thanks for the info. This sounds like a useful service. As you noted, it
doesn't allow any input on a mobile device. Please post an update when
it is ready.
The plain html update is now available at https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng .
This should be usable on mobile devices, though there is still plenty
of scope for improvement.
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