Since NNTP was my gateway to open source, I'm somewhat sad to see Python's nntplib module die... but NNTP is quite well advanced in its way out. If you were as

Since NNTP was my gateway to open source, I'm somewhat sad to see Python's nntplib module die... but NNTP is quite well advanced in its way out. If you were asking a decade ago, NNTP would be a relatively niche community that potentially had some relevance, but posting volumes not associated with alt.binaries has declined precipitously in the past decade alone (judging from aioe.org's statistics, it's a third of in 2022 of what it was in 2012, and even that feels generous). I can understand some concern about the impact of removal of support for deprecated things where it potentially impacts archival scenarios (e.g., uuencoded text), but dropping NNTP from the standard library is probably the right call for Python. It's not like the protocol is so complicated you need a library to do it for you, anyways. ;-) (To be fair, I often use NNTP as my example protocol for implementing stuff because of its simplicity.)