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		hugothefrog on Oct 8, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles: ... I would much prefer to have all my web message boards available through a single interface, in a single program. I haven't seen any web message board UI that truly brings something new to the threaded-discussion style that pretty much all the old Usenet clients used. Which is a shame, really, because I'd much prefer to read blogs via an NNTP reader (I suspect, anyway).

nebula on Oct 8, 2009 [–]

I'd much prefer to read blogs via an NNTP reader

If you use Thunderbird RSS reader to read blogs, you pretty much get the Same look and feel. I was used to Thunderbird NNTP client, when I started adding blog subscriptions to Thunderbird, the transition was seamless

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