Well.. with the binaries function Usenet "hack" (no longer should be called that - it's the Whole Development already, *me bows to fastfoward* ) would be an ultimate and scalable news board. With a proper server(s) and maintenance you could create anything from a small hobbyst website to commercial usenet portals.

However, before it gets to that stage, I for example still have problems with newnews.pl - posts never inserted into threads or never retrieved from news servers, posts disapearing when manualy inserted from admin menu to correct threads (they just never appear there) etc..