Jon A. Cruz escribió: 

That's exactly how the POV-Ray forums present things at the moment.  
(I've not been up with things there for a while, but did check again).

However.... from an NNTP viewpoint, most clients can be set to  
automatically fetch attachments of a given size, etc. Leaving much to  
the user's control.

The NNTP content and the web forum *could* be generated from the same  
back-end. All it takes is the use of the right software and you can  
get all this. Whether it's a web front for a news server, or a news  
feed from a web server doesn't really matter for end users.
They must be using VBulletin, which I hear is a pretty flexible package and offers both a commercial package and a free package. Don't know if it could be linked to a News server (given RSS support I would assume it is possible?) and be used only as a CMS backend and could be used for storing, classifying, web-frontend, etc of the main discussion. I mean the ideal package would be one that could provide both sides the same. So if you posted from your mail/news client, guys browsing the Web interface will see your posts threaded and all that, and vice versa.

  

    
* Ease of use. Especially for those inexperienced users with news
services, which I'd expect quite a bit of users not to be acquainted
with the service.
* Ease of image sharing. After all we're talking about graphics  
software
here!
    

  

  

True. Then again, I've seen that some of the forum software out there  
is very bad on this point. :-)   just pick the right stuff.


  



Not exactly from what I've seen at some forums (especially those
powered by VBulletin).



  

  

    
* No HTML messages restriction (which nowadays seems to be a bit
pointless, especially for a graphically oriented project)
    

  

  

That's been a non-issue on most art-related areas since the last  
century.  :-)
Bit of a strawman argument.


  



Ok, so I won't refrain form using HTML (at least on this list), as in
many others the rules are rather strict.



  

  

    
One question, tough... This would be a dedicated news:// sever, right?
Not (necessarily) accessible through Usenet (my ISP does not provide
Usenet access :( )
    

  

  

That would probably be a main requirement. Even when ISP's provide  
Usenet access, they don't always go through servers that pick up  
binary groups.


  



Excellent! If we could figure out the NNTP<->Web interoperation
that would be excellent! Especially for new users, and would be a way
to keep discussions into one place, and at the same time, viewable by
pretty much all participants, regardless of access means.