Hooking a forum into the Usenet, possible?

I am just thinking about an interesting forum backend design...

I am running a niche forum and I expect it to stay niche. Anyway, in order to widen the audience and improve the overall usefulness of my site I am thinking about hooking the forum into usenet using Perl. Is that possible?

The idea as follows:
All posts to my forum get forwarded to a specific usenet group. My forum server then monitors answers to that specific post and adds them to the thread on my www based forum.

Any ideas, hints, caveats.
Am I actually allowed to do this (regarding usenet guidelines)?

If you look at a typical unmoderated Usenet group, it's hard to see evidence of any guidelines---some of these are pretty bad.

I assume your forum is moderated--mixing that with an unmodera.ted forum seems like a really bad idea.

This said, there should be no reason you cannot do what you are suggesting

Isn't usenet shorthand for spammers spamming other spammers? Linking directly to usenet is probably the quickest way I can think of to populate your forum with an absolute avalanche of garbage and render it totally useless.

Mhhh... Spam, sure I didn't think of that as I only had in mind to post a thread to the usenet and ONLY retrieve this thread back to the www board. But sure, I forgot that spammers would also answer this thread - with spam (and so I would get it back into the www forum...)

Any more ideas? Suggestions for CPAN modules and script design in Perl?

Anyone? Suggestions??

My guess is that people here like me saw this as a very bad idea and simply went on to other things. I know only enough about scripting to believe that your idea is feasible.

Have you tried any Google searches?