Topic drift: The death of Usenet

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:29:59 -0700
Sam Trenholme <strenholme.usenet at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are things NNTP has that RSS doesn't have: Offline reading, and
> the ability to use "references" headers to have a fully threaded
> discussion.

RSS most certainly has offline reading.  That's it's main purpose.  If
the feed you're subscribed to doesn't include the full comment/article,
you should contact the webmaster and ask.  Commonly, you can just change
the options in the RSS feed URL yourself.  eg. example.com/rss?feed=full
or example.com/rss/full.  If you look up the forum software being used,
it's typically a quick read in the docs to find the RSS options you can
choose from.

RSS's lack of threading is unfortunate.  Though I suppose some RSS
reader could hack up something (that looks close) from the subject
line, time/date, and maybe even parsing quoted text...