That's right, we now have our NNTP server running and are
self-hosting a read-only news gateway at:
nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta
# temporarily swap > for escape so our s!! to add href works.
# there's probably a way to do this with only a single s!! ...
$str =~ s!>!\e!g;
# temporarily swap > for escape so our s!! to add href works.
# there's probably a way to do this with only a single s!! ...
$str =~ s!>!\e!g;
-$str =~ s!\b((ftp|https?)://[\w+\+\&\?\.\%\;/#-]+)!<a\nhref="$1"\n>$1</a>!g;
+$str =~ s!\b((nntp|ftp|https?)://[\w+\+\&\?\.\%\;/#-]+)!<a
+href="$1"\n>$1</a>!g;
+
$str =~ s!\e!>!g; # swap escapes back to >
print '<html><head>',
$str =~ s!\e!>!g; # swap escapes back to >
print '<html><head>',
complement or replace traditional mailing lists. Readers may
subscribe to a mailing list using ssoma[1] (a git-wrapper) to
import email from a git repository into an IMAP folder, Maildir,
complement or replace traditional mailing lists. Readers may
subscribe to a mailing list using ssoma[1] (a git-wrapper) to
import email from a git repository into an IMAP folder, Maildir,
-or mbox. Readers may also read via Atom feeds and HTML archives.
+or mbox. Readers may also read via NNTP, Atom feeds and HTML
+archives.
public-inbox spawned around three main ideas:
public-inbox spawned around three main ideas:
need to install ssoma, a command-line tool[1] currently implemented in
Perl.
need to install ssoma, a command-line tool[1] currently implemented in
Perl.
-Casual readers may also follow the list via Atom feed or web archives.
+Casual readers may also follow the list via NNTP, Atom feed or
+HTML archives.
_Anybody_ may also setup a delivery-only mailing list server to replay
a public-inbox git archive to subscribers via SMTP.
_Anybody_ may also setup a delivery-only mailing list server to replay
a public-inbox git archive to subscribers via SMTP.
ssoma sync --cron
HTML inbox archives are available: http://public-inbox.org/meta/
ssoma sync --cron
HTML inbox archives are available: http://public-inbox.org/meta/
+The archives are also readable via NNTP:
+ nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta