On 31 March 2014 23:01, Ben Finney
Having all of this in a single NNTP client interface makes discussion on dozens of forums much more manageable than either "web forums" (*spit*) or mailing lists.
One of the key downsides for me of an NNTP interface is that it's (as far as I know) extremely difficult to set up a synchronised environment across two or more PCs. For email, gmail, while not perfect, is a reasonably good client, and I can use it on multiple PCs. I know of no NNTP client with a comparable feature set that tracks what I have and haven't read across multiple PCs, allows posting, etc. If anyone can suggest such a client (which works on Windows, but as it'd probably be web-based, that's probably less of a limitation that normal), I'd be immensely grateful. I realise this is off-topic, but I don't feel *too* guilty as this whole thread is pretty off-topic :-) Paul PS Google groups and the gmane web interface need not apply - neither are particularly friendly (to be polite...)