HyperNews: Future: Usenet Gateway

A gateway between HyperNews and News is possible. (A similar Email Gateway are already available.) Each News group would have a HyperNews forum to represent it, and each article in the News group would have a corresponding HyperNews message in the forum. When a HyperNews reader adds a message within HyperNews, this could be automatically posted in the corresponding News group. Cycles must be avoided, as usual in bidirectional gateways.

The HyperNews/News group should have a fairly short expiration until we have some way of automatically organizing messages. Obviously a site supporting the HyperNews/News gateway for a group must either store all the News articles or have access to them from somewhere else.

For any moderately large newsgroup, we should probably subdivide a single newsgroup into several HyperNews forums. Even a relatively low volume newsgroup accumulates a lot of articles over time, and these need to be organized in the archive. But this requires that someone (or something) read each of the articles to find out which HyperNews forum it belongs in.

The best approach to implementing this gateway now is to use the NNTPClient.pm module, similar to how the POP3Client.pm module is used to fetch mail in batch-fetch-pop-mail.pl. Another approach is to use an IMAP client.

References

• News Scripts in Perl

1 Usenet gateway? by David Woolley, 1994, Aug 25

1 Could help get HyperNews going. by Sam Iam, 1994, Aug 25

2 Is this the next generation of News? by S. Pepper, 1994, Aug 25

1 Usenet is dead, long live Usenet by liberte@hypernews.org, 1994, Aug 25

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4 Web TV by Louella Mundy, 2000, Sep 25

5 Web TV by Louella Mundy, 2000, Sep 25

6 Untitled , 2000, Sep 25

2 HyperNews and NNTP Gateway by Craig Goranson, 1995, Sep 02

3 One of the beauties of USENET is developing ideas. Must take the concept of "News" out of USENET and HyperNews(sic). , 1995, Dec 05

1 Back to the Idea of Dialogue by peterm@comed.com, 1996, May 24

2 What's in a name? by aphor@bradley.edu, 1996, Jun 07

4 What, if the local newsserver is not yet up?` by Dirk Wissmann, 1995, Jan 24

1 HyperNews is not Usenet News, yet by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Jan 25

5 Anything happening ? by Jon Schneider, 1997, Jan 08

1 Some design alternatives by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 08

where are the scripts ? , 1997, Jan 10

7 Using HyperNews as a USENET moderator by Bill, 1997, May 03

8 USENET Gateway for Linux DONE!!!! by Daniele Carbonetti, 1997, May 16

1 Great news by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, May 16

1 Re: Great news by danielec@linux.stt.it, 1997, May 16

... 1 Message(s)

2 HyperNews vs. WWWNNTP by webmaster@tenthplanet.com, 1997, May 21

3 News gateway archive put online!! by danielec@linux.stt.it, 1997, May 23

1 What about a little HOWTO by ollesch@muenster.de, 1997, Jun 26

2 Unable to access ftp://linux.stt.it by oliverd@silas.cc.monash.edu.au, 1998, Feb 17

9 What's up with the NNTP<->HyperMail Swiss army knife? by Scott Kozicki, 1997, Aug 19

11 I finally made it and everyone went away by Jamie Zellerbach, 1998, Apr 05

1 We're all still here by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, Apr 05

1 FirstClass - USENET - HyperNews - FirstClass by jamiezel@sala.net, 1998, Apr 10

2 want email and usenet gateways! by bd@dragontree.com, 1998, Jun 05

... 2 Message(s)

12 Usernet Wateway? by M. Machado, 1998, Jun 10

13 HyperNews to Usenet gateway? Danielle Carbonetti? linux.stt.it? by Mariano Egurrola, 1998, Jun 19

14 Is the usenet gateway project dead? by Steve Glines, 1998, Nov 09

15 NNTP-based HyperNews ? by Marc BURESI, 1999, Jan 13

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