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A good way to revive NNTP would be to gateway a web forum to NNTP, such that posts on the Usenet server become posts on the web forum and vice-versa. The web fo

by msla 9y ago

A good way to revive NNTP would be to gateway a web forum to NNTP, such that posts on the Usenet server become posts on the web forum and vice-versa. The web forum would have its own killfile, like any normal user, which would ban Usenet posters from the web forum, and, of course, individual users would have killfiles as well. Spam might be the insurmountable problem here, but I think it's at least worth an experiment.

int_19h 9y ago
Isn't that basically what Google Groups is?
- msla 9y ago
  In theory, sure. In practice, we can do better on the Web interface side than Google Groups does.
  - int_19h 9y ago
    We probably can, but I think it's good enough as a proof of concept. And it didn't attract enough interest to save Usenet.