&gt; I agree that NNTP was a nicely federated system, and just a couple of days ago I was pondering the use of NNTP to publish Git pushes. Git&#x27;s support for signed commits and content addressed objects is a great start for distributed, trustworthy collaboration. I still can&#x27;t envision exactly how it would all function.<p>Perhaps having something akin to a private NNTP server that requires authentication to post for each open source project, but is publicly viewable.  These news servers could be configured to send IHAVE &lt;article&gt; to other news servers to increase visibility.  There could be a newserver like gmane to aggregate the feeds from each of those private news servers.<p>If you could get an authentication system that could work across those news servers, then you could have a decent system for keeping up with and contributing to open source projects.