On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 10:19 -0500, leagris wrote: > Why not use an NNTP (news protocol) for forum back-end instead of a > mailing list? This way, any news client can organize archive, browse > the forum. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Evolution all these support > news protocol. > Probably because USENET is open to all manner of spam and trolls that we can do without. A vast amount of that comes care of Google Groups. Lastly, may I remind you that USENET has no anti-spam tools apart from a killfile facility, which not all newsreaders provide. As it is, we get spam we could do without, often via the forums. In consequence my copy of SA has a fairly impressive set of custom rules that I've developed specially to deep-six spam arriving via the Wine mailing list. Martin
