use the right software Re: A seqfan forum...

[Ralf Stephan]

Gordon Royle wrote 
> >
> >instead of your inbox filling up all day long,
> >you only go to your newsreader window when you
> >have time, download the headers, and read the
> >ones you want.
> 
> I think that moving seqfan to a "forum-based" format is a great idea,  
> and there are many good free forum programs (often PHP/MySQL  
> based)... one called SMF (Simple Machines Forum http:// 
> www.simplemachines.org/) seems to be very good.

What you need is a threading mail program like mutt which, alas,
is not clickable but using a keyboard is much faster after some
time, anyway.

I get hundreds of mails daily from a dozen mailing lists and going
through them is a breeze.


ralf