[HIJACKED!] What are the best OSS discussion group apps?

[Wulfy]

Liam Proven wrote:
> Gmail is an excellent tool for handling mailing lists; I have been
> using it for three years for more than 30 different lists which it
> handles with great aplomb. It is fast, efficient and easy and has
> reduced the number of emails I download on my main account by
> something like 1000 messages a day at peak. It works /brilliantly/ for
> mailing lists and its threading is superb; indeed, it is smart enough
> to start a new thread when someone starts a new conversation by
> changing a subject line, which it appears many people's programs can't
> do.
>
>   
If it is smart enough to start a new thread when the subject is changed, 
why did it leave the message IDs of the previous thread in, which is the 
way most e-mail clients thread?

As Michael Head said:

> From the headers of the original post:
>
>
> References: <e4b753d00801121443l5ddc291w42cb4c50cc172a4e at mail.gmail.com>
>          <478A3857.9040202 at gmail.com>
> <200801130919.27020.david at kosmosisland.com>
>
> which are the message IDs of the "raid questions" thread.


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