Thanks for all the feedback.

Heavybombers, I was thinking of admin generated news, not third-party news feeds. And yes, it could be used with an existing installation of GForum. A portion of your forum would be reserved for news (let's say you specify a category, and everything below this category is news, not normal forum).

Alex, thanks for the details on howto implement it. As for the validation: submitted stories would go into a separate table (maybe one could allow everyone post access on the news forums, but then intercept new posts - i.e. not replies - and then send them to a submission table instead of the Post table, only moderators posts would be actually posted).

I will start working on it as soon as I find the time. In the meantime, I am open for suggestions.

Ivan
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