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In these days of "distributed stuff" I'm surprised there isn't a popular forum which uses NNTP for topic/thread storage, and is basically a presentation layer o
by stevekemp 8y ago
In these days of "distributed stuff" I'm surprised there isn't a popular forum which uses NNTP for topic/thread storage, and is basically a presentation layer on top of that back-end.
- beagle3 8y agohttp://gmane.org/about/ http://gmane.org/about/ is more or less what you're referring to, and there are others. But the thing with nntp is not the storage - it's the fact that it is standardized. It is extremely convenient to write a newsgroup post, and cc: someone in particular, and when they do a "reply all" the newsgroup is a recipient as well. This does not work with any "forum", and works (but not well) for mailing lists.