[Evolution] Newsgroups as a groupware feature

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk pp fishpool fi>]

On a related issue, whatever happened to the embryonic NNTP support that once
crept into Evolution?  Will that be further developped?  

I could use NNTP for Usenet and, most of all, as yet another groupware feature
integrated with other Evolution modules.  

One interresting level of integration would be for the Summary section, where
the subject line of e.g. the last 10 posts from selected newsgroups appear in
the main summary frame, along with RDF collections and weather reports.  This
would be usefull for getting the general idea of what's happening on any given
day on e.g. company.productname.sales internal discussion list, without having
to click on an eventual Newsgroups icon among the Shortcuts panel.

Obviously, actual NNTP support (beyond the above Summary agregation idea) is
also a welcome idea and would allow me to finaly uninstall Pan. 

The way I would like NNTP to be implemented is, as just another folder category
(i.e. Local Folders, Other Contacts, etc.) whose name is that of the newssource
e.g. news.domain.tld and containing each subscribed newsgroup as a subfolder. I
haven't used Outlook in ages, but AFAIR that's more or less how it's implemented
there also and this makes a lot of sense to me as, generally speaking, I quite
often find myself forwarding an interresting newspost to someone via e-mail or,
vice-versa, bringing a e-mailed matter of general interest to newsgroups. While
the NNTP and SMTP protocols are different, in practice, they are both used for
discussing and are both viewed as (optionaly threaded) message folders and, thus
pretty much go hand in hand, IMHO.

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On 22 May 2002, Not Zed wrote:
> But NNTP isn't usenet, its just used by it. Various groupware servers use
> nntp or something like it for 'group discussions' still.

> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 23:06, Jim Meyer wrote:
> > There's always been a fine line between NNTP/newsgroups and SMTP/mailing
> > lists, hasn't there?