your editor and any other may just look onto smtp<>nntp<>news_reader. Yes this is not `apt-get install foo` stuff, but exim4<>inn<>slrn for private mail or gmane<>slrn for lists is the most productive, flexible and stable environment i've ever had.

Simple smtp-based e-mail has evolve to what nntp was initially designed for, without ad-hoc functionality for expirity, indexing, search, storing, etc., etc. and all this for huge volumes of messages. Oh, man, NIH!

posted here: http://lwn.net/Articles/285207/