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I have far too much incoming information, all the time. This torrent is only likely to increase. How best to organize it? The WORDHORDE, inspired by William S. Burroughs's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_Hoard Word Hoard], is my ongoing attempt. Requirements, or at least desired properties, of WORDHORDE include:
* spooling to a personal store, using NNTP or perhaps Maildir or even IMAP
** whatever backend is used, it must support speedy ncurses-based clients (like [[slrn]] and [[mutt]]) and scripts
** further UI must address Bayesian searching, clustering-based searching, etc...
** an actual database might be desirable, as opposed to flat files ala an NNTP spool
* permanent personal archival of all incoming data (including spam, phishing, malware etc for later/long-term analysis)
* being a good netizen -- event-driven mechanisms when possible, optimal bulk transfers, etc
* sources/dests must include RSS feeds, NNTP, mailing lists, personal mail, IM history
* full bidirectional gateway capabilites -- post NNTP and have it turned into an IM, a mail, a phone call voiced by <tt>festival(1)</tt>, a blog comment, etc...
** needs address protected poll-based feeds: [http://dankamongmen.livejournal.com LJ flist], [http://lwn.net LWN subscription], etc...

== HTTP ==
=== RSS ===
==== Mail Gateways ====
* [http://packages.debian.org/rss2email rss2email]: <tt>r2e</tt> binary seems pretty simple for turning RSS into SMTP.
** <tt>r2e new defaultmail</tt>: create a new r2e database, with default email target defaultmail
** <tt>r2e add url optmail</tt>: add a feed to the database by URL, with an optional email target optmail
** <tt>r2e run</tt>: scan for new articles; mail them. designed for cronjob use, it seems.

==== Console Readers ====
* [http://packages.debian.org/olive olive] (Olive r1 01b7): attractive reader, imports [[OPML]] directly
** Add a new feed with ^A, edit with ^E, options with ^O
** Not very configurable, kind of slow
* [http://packages.debian.org/nrss nrss]
* [http://packages.debian.org/snownews snownews]
* [http://packages.debian.org/rsstail rsstail]
* [http://packages.debian.org/newsbeuter newsbeuter]

== NNTP ==
=== Standards ===
* RFC 977 (1986), "Network News Transfer Protocol: A Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News"
* RFC 1036 (1987), "Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages"
* RFC 2980 (2000), "Common NNTP Extensions"
* RFC 3977 (2006), "Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)"
* This [http://www.tin.org/docs.html tin] page seems to be kept up-to-date

=== Servers ===
* [http://packages.debian.org/leafnode leadnode] - http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/
** Perhaps the only actively-developed open, sane NNTP server?
** Last stable release 2007-03-17 (1.11.6), release candidate 2008-01-25 (1.11.7.rc1)
* [http://packages.debian.org/sn sn] - http://patrik.infa.fi/sn/
** Last release 2004-04-10
* [http://packages.debian.org/papercut papercut] - http://pessoal.org/papercut/
** Last release 2005-04-21, primarily an NNTP wrapper around web forums

=== Utilities ===
* [http://packages.debian.org/nglister nglister] - list newsgroups / stats from an NNTP server
* [http://packages.debian.org/postnews postnews] - post an article from stdin to an NNTP server

=== Web Gateways ===
* [http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/w3news/ W3news] (NNTP/HTTP) (no debian package)
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/web-imap/ WING] (NNTP/IMAP) (no debian package)
* [http://amrhein.eu/newsportal NewsPortal] (NNTP/HTTP) (no debian package)

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