Yes. If you expose the standard, text mode NNTP interface to citadel, without even full implementation of the NNTP server, then you have tons of NNTP clients that can recover the Citadel data and look at it in ANY way they please, and post to any room without even running the webcit hybrid.
I am just seeing it with one particular person that decided it is sufficient for her to just subscribe to a room she is interested in and read/post the posts from her mail client. Thunderbird is a dedicated mail client with all sorts of abilities that are developed in many instances better than in many other places. Because their number of developers is an order of magnitude more than in other places. With NNTP text mode standard interface, which is over 90% the same functionality as SMTP, people can also work with information from a number of NNTP client packages, they are used to and that perform all they want and need in the way they want. Webcit still needs a lot of work. To increase performance of page load and usage of countless Javascript and/or style sheets just to read the message, seamlessness of operations of "bells and whistles" like Calendar, Contacts, Tasks and so on. These are not exactly the simplest things in the world and require development power "to stay in sync" with CURRENT "out there". Either you implement something FULLY and completely, with all bells and whistles and support for anything "out there", the "latest and greatest", or you become "just another half-baked" something. So, if you can not do it yourself, then let the users construct their own system from the components, such as citadel server, webcit hybrid client/server interface, mail or news client and so on. In that case, you don't have to worry that much about your limited resource and doing a really good job on EVERYTHING, while being able to do a good job only in some areas. And, if you implement a FULL NNTP server functionality, that would be really something, combined with the email server capabilities.
