Here's a way that makes a compromise. It is a webbased news reader.
I am not trying to push the idea, just thought it looked alot cleaner 
than GNAME.

http://florian-amrhein.de/newsportal/

To see it in action
http://news.zelow.no/floppyfw/newsportal/thread.php?group=floppyfw.newbie

btw...I know this is a back-burner thing. Too much going on with the 
latest update.

Don



Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Frans King wrote:
> 
> 
>>It's been debated many times and I think it all comes down to people
>>preferring e-mail over forums. What would be nice would be integration
>>between a forum and a mailing list - post a message on a forum and it gets
>>e-mailed to all the members and similarly if you send a message to a
>>mailing list it gets archived to the correct thread in the forum.
> 
> 
> I think that's a really slick idea. Best of both worlds for everyone.
> In retrospect, the idea is very similar to GMANE, but GMANE does
> list -> forum -> NNTP, and the forum interface is read-only.
> 
> Killer idea for an OSS project, IMO.
> 

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