I have a functional perl script that does this (email messages are threaded and stored in a MySQL database) although the front end is p*** poor (I am not a perl programmer or programmer for that matter).
I would be willing to share as long as it helps. Regards, Peter PS Contact me privately if this is OT - but it seems to be very ON TOPIC at the moment. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Kennedy > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:31 PM > To: OpenSRS lists > Subject: Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Migration from Mailing Lists to Discussion > Forums > > On 17 1 2005 at 6:23 pm -0500, George Kirikos wrote: > > >Is there a way to get the best of both worlds? In particular, everytime > >there's a new post (even in a new thread) on the forum, the emails > >would continue to go out onto the mailing list, in order to have that > >"push" feature that folks like? > > > >And then if folks want to REPLY (or POST), they'd have to do so only > >via the web-based forum, or via NNTP? > > As a matter of fact, if there were an elegant solution that would > integrate all of these (web, NNTP and e-mail) then I have at least a > couple of customers right now who would pay for such a product. > > Seems like a no-brainer considering Tucows recent forays into e-mail and > web-publishing. > > -ben > > -- > Ben Kennedy, chief magician > zygoat creative technical services > 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 > http://www.zygoat.ca