Many email clients already support interacting with NNTP servers.  IIRC, Windows (Live) Mail, Outlook Express, and Thunderbird all support reading email as well as newsgroups.<p>IME, it&#x27;s no different than using email other than the fact that you&#x27;ll have a Newsgroups field instead of a To field.  Composing and replying are pretty much the same as email.  And each subscribed newsgroup could just as well be thought of as an email folder.