It doesn't have to be if we observe that for a user, mailinglists and
newsgroups are pretty much the same thing. There have been many
comments to the effect that we have to include some special handling
for mailinglists.
Mailing lists have one submission address.
NNTP has thousands of submission servers many of which will allow you
to submit and the effect is a merged list. If anything NNTP could be
implemented like IM.
With lists you tell (or a spammer adds you) to a list that sends email
to you.
With NNTP you decide which groups to read and from which of the
thousands of servers.
With lists you send a request to get off of the list.
With NNTP you just stop reading it.
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