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

[Liam Proven]

On 14/01/2008, Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 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?

What else would you suggest it did? Change the message headers of
stuff it receives? I'm perfectly happy with the way it actually
worked; I cannot see any way it could be better. There are details of
the user interface that I'd change, but by and large, its threading
and filtering are 1st rate.

But this isn't very germane to Ubuntu!

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