Re: Reading Atom feeds with Gnus

[Harald Jörg]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Harald Jörg wrote:
>
>> Right now, I'm using news.gwene.org to convert the
>> Atom feeds to NNTP which works quite fine. But this
>> seems to be an unneccessary detour, so I'd prefer
>> some "direct" approach.
>
> It isn't!
>
> Gwene is great!

Thanks for the confirmation.  Indeed, Gwene is a great and very
convenient service.  Extremely easy to use and free of charge.

The issues of using a proxy are irrelevant in my current use case, but
they exist in more paranoic situations:

 - Privacy: I need to share with a 3rd party which feeds I'm reading.

 - Authenticity and Confidentiality: I'm losing the ability to verify
   certificates of SSL-protected Atom feeds (many of them are). There's
   no end-to-end encryption, if the proxy is hijacked, it can suppress
   articles, or feed me fake news.

 - Identity: I shouldn't use that services to read feeds which need
   user authentication.

None of these concerns bothers me for the Atom feeds I read right now,
so I guess I'll just continue to use Gwene - with compliments to its
provider :)
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Cheers,
haj