One thing I've always wondered is why email based patch submission and review was never done via a newsgroup over NNTP. One advantage a newsgroup has over an e

One thing I've always wondered is why email based patch submission and review was never done via a newsgroup over NNTP. One advantage a newsgroup has over an email list is that you don't have to set up filters in your email client, and that every message posted doesn't have to be specifically CC'd to a certain group of people. Also, it's much easier to browse past posts. Currently this can be done via the gmane NNTP gateway for the kernel and git mailing lists, but I can't see a good reason why a newsgroup wouldn't be preferred over a mailing list.