[gopher] ANNOUNCE: New Web Portal for USENET

[Randall Wood]

Matt -

Looks very good.  Another option (not mine).  When I implemented the web 
front end to some newsgroups I found a package already available.  Have 
a look at http://forum.dictatorshandbook.net which mirrors the dictator* 
hierarchy (mine).

The code is PHP with an option to allow posting (I disabled it because 
it was attracting spammers).  Can't remember the package but write me if 
you're interested and I can either zip up the code for you and dig 
through it to remember what it's called and where I found it.

R


------ Original Message ------
From: "Matt Owen (Jaruzel)" <jaruzel at jaruzel.com>
To: gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
Sent: 10/19/2017 6:16:45 AM
Subject: [gopher] ANNOUNCE: New Web Portal for USENET

>Hi All,
>
>What with the ongoing discussion on where the list is going, and lots 
>of
>peoples adversion to USENET and Google Groups (the latter of which I
>also dislike), I spent a couple of hours last night, coding up this:
>
>http://www.jaruzel.com/apps/usenet/
>
>It's 100% a proof of concept, and very rough around the edges, and also
>doesn't have any posting ability (yet!), but it's something I've been
>meaning to do for quite some time, as there are quite a few low traffic
>USENET groups I want to start following regularly.
>
>So, is this useful or not?  If it was fleshed out into a proper 
>platform
>would people use it?  Does it help in the on-going conversation of
>whether to migrate to comp.infosystems.gopher or not?
>
>Of course, it's not that hard to evolve what I've got to include a
>mailing list function and a proper domain for it to live on etc. Which 
>I
>am happy to host and manage.
>
>If there's no takers, then fine. As I said it's something I've wanted 
>to
>have anyway... :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Matt (Jaruzel)
>
>
>
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