News

This is a web app that contacts the local news server via NNTP and shows a rudimentary read-only forum. The effect is similar to using lynx with a news URL like news://campaignwiki.org/ or news://cosmic.voyage/.

This web app provides no filtering, no scoring, no pagination (!) – the use-case it currently serves is as an introduction to the news system itself. Users are expected to get accounts and use a NNTP client such as tin, slrn, nn, knews or Thunderbird.

Host localhost, port 119, and the hierarchy campaignwiki.* are currently hardwired and should be controllable by a config file.

It'd be nice to have this on CPAN, too.