>I really wish others would think in such a seldom-connected model, as the network is becoming increasingly brittle, and working in that model was such a joy.

https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org

Also, the old NNTP and email lists are still alive.

I use SLRN on batch mode on Usenet and tildex (Unix based micronetworks), and it rocks. In batch mode, I pull down all the comments/articles and I push down the answers and written articles. No need to be online 24h/7d.

For email, i use Getmail against an IMAP server.

Thus, I can fetch all the data offline at once with a 'do_the_internet.sh' script in a breeze.

I would love to use HN over NNTP.