[ILUG-Social] Random ideas.

[John Gaughan]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, David Golden wrote:
> 2.  Is there any threaded mail/news readers that allow a "nested" display 
> mode like slashdot/kuro5hin - current one's I've seen are, at best, like
> "threaded" mode.   I find, in following a large discussion, the "nested" mode
> easiest to follow, since the whole thing's visible on one big "sheet".  Again,
> with today's beefy hardware, why not?  (O.K. for many news groups, it'd 
> probably overload the news server, since there's so many messages and so much 
> irrelevance, but for mailing lists and smaller newsgroups it would be nice...)

Yup, mailreaders that have threading support that I know of are Mutt[1],
Evolution[2] and (if I remember correctly) the mailreader in Netscape/Mozilla.
Newsreaders with threading support are slrn[3] and Pan[4].

This is not a complete list, I've only listed those threaded mail/news readers
I'm most familiar with.  Searching on freshmeat[5] and Google[6] should point
you in the direction of others.

John.

  1. http://www.mutt.org/
  2. http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/
  3. http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
  4. http://pan.rebelbase.com/
  5. http://freshmeat.net/
  6. http://www.google.com/
-- 
John Gaughan, Systems Administrator
Irish Times New Media - http://www.ireland.com/