More phpBB like forum?

[Walter Bright]

Daniel White wrote:
> To get the best of both worlds, one could get some backend server
> software to automatically parse the posts into a thread/phpbb like
> system, AND for the posts to be sent in the usual way to be read by
> the specialized newsgroup software readers. Is there such a system? -
> if not then why not, as it would be beneficial to everyone.

http://www.osronline.com claims to have such a system for their forums. 
I signed up for it, but their server rejects my attempts to use 
Thunderbird's newsgroup reader on it, so I can't vouch for it actually 
working.