http://www.newsgroupbanter.com Making the best web-interface for newsgroup access Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:41:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Please can you remove my email address"This is the most common request I get. I have decided to remove from display all email addresses from all newsgroup posts (along similar lines to Google Groups) in an effort to stop the email spam harvesters. The message headers (and the email address of the ... http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/displaying-of-email-addresses/ In the last post I talked about the abilty to decode binaries. For the record, I will not be mirroring any porn, mp3, movie or warez newsgroups (and yes, there ARE some binary newsgroups other than these).I'll leave those to the specialists ;) http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/just-in-case-you-are-wondering/ I have been busy updating the web interface to the newsgroups that I mirror. Most of the work is in the back end, so you won't see much difference - except of course it will run that little bit smoother ;)One area that I have concentrated on is binaries. The ... http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/new-and-improved-scripts/ This project is about creating a better web interface to Usenet groups. The place I decided to start was to look at forum software which has a much more developed feel and look when comparing with existing Usenet web interfaces, and then look at building a fully featured Usenet interface on top of that.This ... http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/background-to-this-web-interface/ In February 2001 Google acquired Deja.com and promptly renamed it Google Groups. It's been in Beta ever since.It had a much overdue upgrade last year to Google Groups 2 (although I have noticed that Google have now dropped the '2') with some significant improvements in usability and speed over the original version, and ... http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/google-groups-5-years-in-beta/ In an announcement on Giganews website, Giganews will sponsor access to the Mozilla Foundation's Usenet newsgroups hierarchy.From the announcment: "The Mozilla Foundation was created to support the development of the best quality software and services to people looking for innovation and choice on the Internet. We know that the Mozilla community ... http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/giganews-sponsors-backend-infrastructure-for-mozilla-foundations-newsgroups/ This will be the home of NewgroupBanter where I will be sharing my thoughts, hopes and actions of the network of websites that I operate that make up NewsgroupBanter. http://www.newsgroupbanter.com/hello-world/