Revisting NNTP?

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I've been going over NNTP again.  Maybe I'm just stuck in a mental 
rut or something but tell me again why we're not using NNTP for these 
feeds?

As the number of feeds increases so do the articles.  It's not long 
before there's a rapid overload of too much news...  This has been 
handled quite well in the past by using either a web interface or a 
NNTP server.  The hassle with a web interface is that I can't 
(usually) do client-like things from it.  I can't, for example, 
easily mail something from a web page.  The cutting/pasting is such a 
nightmare.  I also can't forward that page AND it's contents into a 
useful local repository of data.  This so I can review it at a later 
time.

What about this idea, we create one newsgroup for each feed.  Then 
push each item into it's own message.  Have the message contain 
whatever human readable info was present in the item AND attach some 
nuggets of XML to it.

No, this wouldn't work given the current UseNet 'push it all around' 
structure because we'd be creating new groups left and right.  
However, if the feeds were concentrated at some known sources it 
might be OK.  We're not talking the gobs of crap that's already going 
round in usenet; just news headlines and some limited bits of XML.

I'm just really irritated with not being able to use some really 
powerful UI features when it comes to reading newsfeeds.  I'm ok 
being yanked over to the actual website when I want to read the 
article.  But I'm sick of wading through and endless morass of really 
hideous (and everchanging) user interfaces.

So, anyone want to comment?

Thanks,
Bill Kearney