Writing bridges isn't a bad idea to fill the gap between old software for protocols nobody uses, and new protocols that have poor clients. For example, I'm wri

Writing bridges isn't a bad idea to fill the gap between old software for protocols nobody uses, and new protocols that have poor clients. For example, I'm writing this post with `vim` using `slrn` news reader, which uses a bridge that translates HN to NNTP (and vice versa).