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[Ben Finney]

News123 <news1234 at free.fr> writes:

> However, whether we like it or not:
> Fewer and fewer newcomers are willing, knowledgable, aware of nntp

If so, isn't that an indication that better education about the benefits
is required? Perhaps in combination with improving the tool support for
the NNTP protocol?

> If you think, that newbies are unlikely to use nntp, then create a
> forum, web front end or whatever, which looks very nice and cool,
> which will automatically relay messages (forward and backward) to this
> group.
>
> In my opinion new forums should integrate nntp and not try to replace
> it.

For this purpose, Papercut may be useful:

    Open source news server written in Python. Its main objective is to
    integrate existing web based message board software, like Phorum
    which is supported, with a Usenet front-end.

    <URL:http://pessoal.org/papercut/>

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Ben Finney