Could you please stop this?!
Two sentences should suffice so what's the point of this whole flame?
1. People who are used to mailing lists feel that MLs are superior and
require less time to read. (if you don't share this opinion then try
using an e-mail client with threading support (not GMail; sadly it's not
the required kind of threads what they support))
2. You can try with the forum but I guess a good WWW interface to
mailing lists would be a better choice. Something like GMane.org
threaded view but with posting support.
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regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa