This has been discussed on the URI list. (If it were WIT it would
be easy to refer to.!) I am against the idea as it is a perversion
of the NNTP protocol for uses which eth HTTP protocol was designed.
You can do the same thing just by running a local HTTP gateway
into a local newsgroup.
> - A mechanism in Web browsers which allows posting articles in
> any news group on any news server. Posting from an article is
> a followup to a thread, and posting from the news group index
> opens a new thread.
I would suggest allowing posting to anything, be it
news article or web article (subject to permission).
> - A Newsgroup-Mailing list bidirectional reflector. The reflector will
> automatically post new mailing list articles to a specified
> news group, and will automatically mail a new news group
> posting to a specified mailing list.
These exist.
Tim