A good email client with threading support that I have grown to love is mutt.
If people really want a newgroups interface, Netraverse could set up a news server and
have postings go to both the mail list and the news group.
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:39:12AM -0400, Coronya wrote:
> I also disagree! :) I prefer using my mail reader since I can keep track of
> what's happening far more easily... and I have a local copy. Those of you
> that wants a forum style should look at freshmeat for some programs that can
> show your e-mail with a forum style. Find an e-mail client that offer
> threading support and you're set! Anyway, you can do a lot more thing in
> e-mail (like flagging message, sorting them in folders, annotating them,
> etc) than you can do in a web based forum.
>
> And may I suggest someone register win4lin-users at www.mail-archive.com?
> It's a free service from VALinux (I think) that show a mailing list in
> threaded format. This would easily fulfill your desire! ;)
>
> Just my two US cents... (with the decreasing value of CAN$, this will be
> worth a lot pretty soon lol!)
> Coronya
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Glen Harris wrote:
>
> > Bill Dimm wrote:
> > > On a different topic, have the Netraverse people given any thought
> > > to using forum software instead of an emailing list for these
> > > discussions? It would make it a lot easier people to read only
> > > the threads they are interested in, and it would also be much
> > > easier to search the archives. For example: http://www.wwwthreads.com/
> > > I'm not in any way affiliated with or compensated by the wwwthreads
> > > people, but when I was comparing forum software I thought theirs was
> > > good.
> >
> > I disagree. I have better things to do than to keep reloading
> > a web page to see new articles, and wait 10 to 30 seconds for each
> > article to be displayed. I want to be able to read past posts
> > offline. My mail reader threads articles perfecly well.
> >
> > It's not broken. Don't fix it.
> >
> > glen.
> > (BTW 10-30 seconds are measured off the wwwthreads demo site)
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