> However I don't see it as anything different from mail lists, i.e. I still
see all of the threads inside the particular forum/newsgroup I subscribe to.
One difference is that, in mail lists you get the whole mail (header and the
body) of each post, whereas in newsreader you get just the headers. So,
listing is similar to a mail reader. When you click on a subject, only then
the message is fetched from the nntp server.
Also, killfiles work on headers, so you don't download a whole message just
to kill it.
Another differevce is that, NNTP is a distributed protocol. E.g. a forum may
be mirrored on many nntp servers distributed throughout the world. You can
use any nntp server (that hosts a particular newsgroup) to subscribe to a
newsgroup). This may not be relevant for trisquel forums as it is really
useful for rather large newsgroups such as "comp.os.linux.*" etc.
