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

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> 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.

Sure it works.  So does Outlook Express.  But it's _not_ threading.
> 
> 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.

Since threading is simply a matter of linking via the appropriate headers, I
can't imagine what Ameol was doing that no other email program was doing,
but it can't have been threading.
-- 
derek