!Hi a.c.t,   
   If you see this, I'm posting here using 9front's newt(1) usenet   
   client. It's honestly pretty incredible how well this all works.   
   9front has a built in secure key storage system called   
   "factorum", where my usenet username and password are kept.   
   When I want to read the news, I run nntpfs(4) -a   
   news.eternal-september.org, which prompts me to add my details   
   to factorum, and then mounts the newsgroups to /mnt/news. Then   
   I run newt -f alt.cyberpunk.tech, which reads from /mnt/news,   
   and provides an interface to post/read from.   
      
   Honestly, dicking around in 9front has given me a real   
   appreciation for it. The real dedication to everything is a   
   file (eg, to change volume, you echo a number to /dev/volume),   
   the graphics and mouse centric design... Kinda sad that   
   Inferno didn't go anywhere, but at least 9front is still around.   
   It even supports The Front Ends Of Tomorrow - Power64 and   
   Itanium!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)