Hi Alex,
NNTP
Unfortunately, the software we use does not provide a possibility to access forums via NNTP. We moved from newsgroups to usual forums as later are more convenient for the most of our customers. If you do not want to open the forums web page to check whether there are any new threads or posts, you can subscribe to threads via e-mail or make use the RSS feeds: for every thread, forum, product or all forums.
Quick post without registration
The necessity to register in order to get access to the forums is a mean to fight spam and to provide users with additional services in future.
Search is working for the forums already.
BTW, now you can specify your signature in your account settings.
