NNTP was federated, decentralized, asynchronous, with hierarchical groups and threaded conversations. Decades ahead, in terms of protocol design, of mailing li

NNTP was federated, decentralized, asynchronous, with hierarchical groups and threaded conversations. Decades ahead, in terms of protocol design, of mailing lists, twitter and stuff like Slack. Please tell me there's hope for a new protocol with the same feature set.