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- From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 00:07:40 -0500
-
- (I'm going to have to get the WWW gateway up and running myself.)
-
- Sound like a good idea, Ed! Especially no I've released it
- "properly" :-)
-
- Here's a thought to make WWW/WAIS gateways for netnews even more
- useful than they already are.
-
- Some WAIS db's are really db's full of news articles. comp.archives
- is one, there's collections of current comp.sys.* and sci.* groups,
- etc etc.
-
- The WWW approach to news articles is really cool cause it builds links
- based on embedded message ID's, links on the newsgroups: line, stuff
- like that.
-
- If you could somehow note (maybe on a per-gateway basis? it might
- not be possible to discern on the fly, so you'd perhaps configure
- it ahead of time) that the texts coming back from a WAIS server were
- really news articles instead of arbitrary globs of texts, and theny
- you added the set of news-parsing stuff, you'd have a big win on your
- hands.
-
- (eg. try
- <a href=wais://wais.oit.unc.edu:210/comp-sys?jpeg> jpeg in comp.sys </a>
- and explain why you can't chain back to things from there.)
-
- will get the code and see what I can do to add this.
-
- --Ed
-
- Two ideas here. One is to add a "MailNews" RFC850/822 message type
- which switches on client message parsing. The other is to have a
- converter in the gateway which offes the message as TEXT or as HTML.
- For those clients which have HTML, they pick up the hypertext
- version. The first seems easier. Can we use the same type for mail
- and news messages?
-
- Another idea. Suppose you run a server on the NNTP machine, so it
- has direct access to the news, and when news comes in you cross-link
- the references, so that you can follow links to replies to messages
- references BY a message as well as the messages it references.
-
- Maybe this could be done on the fly when the message is read.
-
- -Tim
-
-
- pls pass on to the whole www crew....
-
- ps. you interested in starting a "comp.infosystems.web" group?
- should get a lot of attention. my WAIS newgroup vote has
- 150+ yes votes in the first two days !
-
- Sure, if you think it'll fly. I guess we have to gateway the mail
- for a while. Maybe comp.infosystems.www --- there is the "web and Cweb"
- toolset from Knuth (?) which we don't want to get confused with.
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