If you have NNTP, then that will help. You can read/write any message. There is not voting, but to me that is an advantage to not have voting; I think chronolog

If you have NNTP, then that will help. You can read/write any message. There is not voting, but to me that is an advantage to not have voting; I think chronological will be better. Also if you have NNTP, you can more easily to compose and read already downloaded messages even if you are not connected to the internet (or if the server is down), only needing internet to send/receive. Scoring files can be used if you want to customize which messages should be displayed, and possibly other things if you use a client program that can use scoring files for other purposes. Another idea is global scoring files that can be optionally installed if the user intends to do, maybe. A protocol extension for search could be used if it is desirable to be able to search, maybe.