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

[Derek Broughton]

thomas fisher wrote:

> On Monday 14 January 2008 08:07:40 Bernard Peek wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm not sure about mailing lists, but Google Groups ignores threading
>> > for newsgroup posts and sometimes loses all of the history of a thread,
>> > posting a followup as if it was the start of a new thread. That causes
>> > a certain amount of annoyance to people that use real newsreaders.
> 
> I discern a need to remember our Ubuntu Code of Conduct:

Excuse me?  Bashing people over the head with the CoC is hardly respectful. 
Especially when the complaints here have been about certain software, not
the people using it.
-- 
derek