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   On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Wy wrote:   
      
      
      
   > I've thought awhile about this, back in the late 90's when the first   
   > web bulletin boards were coming about. What would be a good hybrid   
   > between the raw newsgroup and the isolation of some isolated bulletin   
   > board fragmenting the community. I'm convinced that a web frontend,   
   > with appropriate filtration installed, 'over' the existing nntp server   
   > infrastructure, would serve both purposes. Threaded by topic, with   
   > built in spam filtration and crosspost detection, that's what's needed   
   > these days. It won't serve to sever access for those who are still   
   > using the old ways. Yet it brings the best of the new, of middle   
   > layers which assist your purpose instead of trying to subvert it to   
   > some corporate whim, as well as integrating with the old.   
      
   How would this differ from what has been available in the way of   
   newsreaders since the mid-1990s, if it is the interface that is the   
   issue (for example, newsreaders from xrn or Forte Free Agent to Mozilla   
   Thunderbird)?  For www propagation there is Google (not a newsserver   
   itself, of course)-- the fact that it neglects usenet notwithstanding.   
      
      
      
      
      
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