On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 22:14, Joshua Kronengold <mneme@xxxxxx> wrote: > Olle Johansson writes: >>Unfortunately, it's practically impossible. Yes, you can have >>mailinglists which have html archives where you could post stuff, and >>you could have forums with email integration. > > It isn't, really. > > The Right Way (well, a right way, and a right easy way) is to use a mail<->new gateway, and > a front end on top of the usenet server to make it look much like a > forum. > > In this way, you end up with forum goodness with an understructure > that looks, oddly enough, exactly like email. > > Weirdly enough, mailman supports mail<->news gateways in the core. > But again, someone would have to maintain the usenet gateway and drop > a pretty front end on top. Sounds good. I'll believe it when I see a good web front end. =) It's still going to mess up though, when people answer stuff incorrectly. Google Wave might be a good solution, though there isn't really a standard mail integration. >>Nowadays I can't even reply properly to emails, as you can see. > > Yeah. So what's with the top posting? Don't know what happened, really. Sold my soul to Google and then all was lost.