Re: lynx-dev GNKSA review of Lynx 2.8

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

From: "Thijs Kinkhorst" <address@hidden>

> Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> 
> > 1. is there a C level toolkit for writing GNKSA approved news readers?  That
> > would certainly make it easier for someone to come along with the patches
> > to improve lynx.
> 
> There's something called the GNKSA-lib, check the GNKSA tools
> page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-tools.html
> 
> 
> In my view, there are three possible things to do about the news
> part of lynx:
> 
> 1) do nothing. This leaves us with a good WWW browser with
> attached to it a very miserable news reader, which doesn't even
> allow posting RFC-compliant articles and strongly encourages bad
> net-behaviour.
> 
> 2) address the more urgent GNKSA requirements. This will give us
> a good WWW browser and a fair newsreader but will require some
> work to be done.
> 
> 3) remove the "post message" feature. This way, Lynx still enables
> users to follow news: links in web pages, but with disabling the
> post feature, Lynx will not qualify for a GNKSA-evaluation and this
> prevents harm done by any user using the post feature.

Currently, no one has stepped forward to do either 2 or 3, which means
that, by default, we get option 1.  However, if you, or anyone else on
the mailing list, feels passionate about this, then they should feel
encouraged to take on one of the two approaches.  I must warn the mailing
list that in general, new releases removing features tends to result in
folk not using the new release ...
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