leafnode --> RDBMS

Am I the only to ever try to squeeze NNTP into a database?

I really like the GNU Java API for NNTP, but it's too slow with large 
newsgroups.  It has to open a whole Folder and then search each message 
for the string to get the article number -- not practical.  However, it's 
light years ahead of the Apache API.

In any event, the GNU API uses javax.mail.Message, which is what e-mails 
use!  So, I was thinking of just using something like http://
www.dbmail.org/ and just e-mail all the articles to myself.

On a scale of one to ten, how crazy is that?



thanks,

Thufir