# Accessing discourse list via nntp **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [January 2, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515 "2022-01-02T17:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mark](https://racket.discourse.group/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/1 "2022-01-02T17:08:17Z")
I read the racket mailing lists via nntp via [gmane.io](http://gmane.io) Could the discourse lists be setup to at least allow reading via nntp (I think writing ends up being like writing to the maiuling list - ie the poster has to register their mailling address - but I accept that I might have missed something and accept this would be read only) Thanks Mark ---
**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/2 "2022-01-02T18:08:08Z")
Hi Mark, Are you suggesting a non-person user is set up on discourse that emails posts to a specific address? I can’t make any promises but if you could do the nntp side I could try set up the account. Can you let me know what email address to use? Best wishes Stephen ---
**Author:** ![mark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mark](https://racket.discourse.group/u/mark)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/3 "2022-01-02T18:23:47Z")
I don't need to do the nntp side - [gmane.io](http://gmane.io) does it all for you. The mailing list needs to be registered at [https://admin.gmane.io/](https://admin.gmane.io/) Looking at the questions they ask - I don't know what the mailling list software would be. ---
**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/4 "2022-01-02T19:25:08Z")
It doesn’t look like it is supported. I’ve done a search and this issue has come up a handful of times; plone in 2017; Julia in 2016. In all cases it seemed to dead end. If you can identify a solution I’d be happy to try get it in place. I did find out that Discourse supports RSS and JSON feeds; Some nntp clients also support RSS (e.g. [Mozilla Thunderbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird)) so maybe that is an option for the client you use? If you are using Emacs you could use Elfeed: [https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Elfeed](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Elfeed) The addresses are; [https://racket.discourse.group/posts.rss](https://racket.discourse.group/posts.rss) [https://racket.discourse.group/latest.rss](https://racket.discourse.group/latest.rss) I believe you can also track topics (posts and replies), categories, and tags by adding `.json` or `.rss` to the end of the URL: [https://racket.discourse.group/c/show-and-tell/7.json](https://racket.discourse.group/c/show-and-tell/7.json) [https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/3.json](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/3.json) [https://racket.discourse.group/posts.json](https://racket.discourse.group/posts.json) [https://racket.discourse.group/latest.json](https://racket.discourse.group/latest.json) I'm sorry I don't have a better answer right now. Best wishes, Stephen ---
**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/5 "2022-01-02T19:44:40Z")
To inspect ```scheme #lang racket/base (require net/url json) (call/input-url (string->url "https://racket.discourse.group/latest.json") get-pure-port read-json) ``` ---
**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/accessing-discourse-list-via-nntp/515/6 "2022-01-03T18:01:13Z")
Nice! That's going above and beyond.