All, Recently I have rekindled my interest in Usenet. After deciding which groups I would like to follow, I set out to learn how to make Mutt talk to my NNTP server. As I have always associated Usenet and email as being very similar if not almost one in the same, I was very surprised to find that Mutt does not natively support NNTP. Fortunately, a seemingly well-rounded patch has been maintained (by Vsevolod Volkov) for recent versions of Mutt to add NNTP functionality. Shortly after getting Mutt setup and finding it to be exactly what I was looking for in a news reader, I set out to make sense of why it was never made official. From what I can tell, this decision was made based on sentiments that email and news don't belong together, something I don't understand. Myself and many others feel that Mutt makes a great news reader, benefiting from many of the same features that make Mutt a great email client. It seems unfortunate for such divide over something that can be turned into a compile time option; coveted by those who use it, not noticed by those who don't. From what I've read in the list archives, there are a handful of others who share my sentiment that Usenet reads like a mailing list and can be treated that way. If I have missed anything or have made any unfair generalizations/assumptions, please note them. I've written this post because I would like to see Mutt support NNTP, and the topic seems to have been left in a gray area. Regards, -- Travis Poppe | ASCII Ribbon /"\ IRC: tlp @ irc.freenode.net | Campaign against \ / "All great truths begin as blasphemies." | HTML e-mail and x -- George Bernard Shaw | proprietary attachments / \
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