February 20, 2004

Subscribe to Newsgroup Posts

PubSub's newest service lets you create susbcriptions to newsgroup (NNTP) posts.

The PubSub newsgroup service works just like our weblog subscription service - you can create subscriptions to the content of postings, and get matching results in an RSS file.

We've started with a small set of technical newsgroups (see the list), but we'll be adding more groups over the next few weeks. If you're interested in a particular group or set of groups, please let us know by email or use this form to request a group.

To create a subscription, visit our newsgroup subscription page.

Be warned that newsgroups are pretty raw compared to weblogs - since there's more anonymity in posting, people take more liberties than they would on their own weblog.

Newsgroups also contain a lot of spam. We don't have any methods for limiting this now, but we're certainly open to suggestions.

Please try our newsgroup service, and let us know what you think! You can always send comments to feedback@pubsub.com, or add a comment to this blog.

Posted by pubsub at February 20, 2004 01:44 PM | TrackBack
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My Newsgroups subscription to "Freevo" returns nothing but junk.

Did I set it up right?

My account is ross at karchner dot com.

Posted by: Ross at February 27, 2004 03:19 PM

I looked at your subscription, and there's definitely something wrong with it - but it looks like it's our fault.

Here's one I created to Freevo for NNTP posts. Try it out (give it a little time to get some results) if you like:

http://rss.pubsub.com/e6/e5/6d8caec57c6931921aa4a452f6.xml

Thanks for the feedback!

Posted by: pubsub at February 27, 2004 03:46 PM

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