FS#51403 - [blam] Please use “feed reader” instead of ”newsreader”

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Klaus Alexander Seistrup (kseistrup) - Sunday, 16 October 2016, 11:13 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 16 October 2016, 13:59 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
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Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
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Details

The term “newsreader” should ideally only be used for NNTP clients. Blam cannot read Usenet groups and should be called a “feed reader”, not a “newsreadeer”.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Sunday, 16 October 2016, 13:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 16 October 2016, 12:15 GMT
I don't think that it's so important. The term news reader could be a synonym of news aggregator.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator

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