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No "good" NNTP clients, maybe besides Gnus and slrn, which are rather obscure.

Gmane was relatively popular, and it was great but went down for a long time, which probably further obscured NNTP. IDK if everyone who used to use it is aware that it's up again, now at http://gmane.io/




> No "good" NNTP clients

Thunderbird works on most platforms.

> Gmane was relatively popular, and it was great but went down for a long time

Some mailing lists are now archived using public inbox[1]. There are several ways to access it including via NNTP.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/README.html


Didn't know Thunderbird did NNTP, thanks!

Can you get your own mailing lists on public-inbox, or would you have to self host? I'd love to self host git and a mailing list but setting up mailman/sympa/etc. seems to be too big a task. I was thinking setting up a wiki as a replacement for my small personal projects...


DFeed is the best NNTP clientI have come across https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed


Those are both definitely good clients. And the idea to use NNTP is good, too, but has almost no chance of taking off, for social reasons.




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