You know, it weirds me out how some message board programs prefer to provide some garbage API with which you need to hammer the server to create an NNTP gateway (a sensible protocol-based interface) rather than just implement it in the original program, where no hammering would be necessary and the lowest possible load would be achievable.

Surely they realize there is exactly *no* way their WebUI can ever surpass anything I can come up with in Emacs, right?