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   Charles Pierson to All   
   RSS Reader as a Door   
   31 Jan 21 07:44:40   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
   MSGID: 1:106/127 bc8c7a68   
   TZUTC: -0600   
   I'm the sort of person that values function over form.  I like making things   
   work, regardless of how pretty it is.  After I'm happy with the   
   functionality, then I'll worry about making it pretty.   
      
   That being said, I've experimented a little bit with Linux terminal cinsole   
   games as doors. It looks like it works ok, with at least some if the old text   
   adventure tyoes, although I haven't tried saving and going back to it later   
   yet.   
      
   Now I'm wondering about doing the same with something like Newsboat, or some   
   similar RSS reader.  I'm fairly sure that functionallt, I could get it to   
   work, however my question is whether it would be possible to do so with   
   unique new message pointers for each user.   
      
   Or, barring that, I need a much better understanding of the autoposting of   
   Ttext files, where I could get a way to export each entry in the RSS feed to   
   a message on the BBS. Each particular feed being it's own message area.   
      
   My ultimate goal is finding ways to provide unique content for my BBS that I   
   haven't seen a million times before.    
      
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