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

[Liam Proven]

On 14/01/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Wulfy 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?
>
> Uh, it seems to me that it can't be "smart enough to start a new thread" if
> it includes In-Reply-To or References headers, as that is, by definition,
> part of the old thread.  I think what he really means is that GMail
> completely ignores threading, and just groups by subject.  Ugh.

Gmail does not do traditional email threading at all. It groups
messages into "conversations". When the subject changes, it starts a
new one. This works very well.

I've not seen a PC email app do good threading since the days of
Netscape 3. The best I've ever used, Ameol, is a minority app that
most people will have never even heard of.

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