On Thu, 17 Nov 1994, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
It occured to me that a WWW browser could be used as a sophisticated newsreader like interface to a compiled mailing list, stored on a site. The site would archive the mailing list and index/organize the mail under author, time, subject, etc.
I have written a lot of scripts to do WWW tasks and otehr mail parsing utilities. I would be willing to donate the programming time to this project if others were willing to donate the computing resources.
I have seen a system similar to this, but for gophering newsgroups. (Maybe it's not that similar.) I believe it's called Mercury, and you can find it at gopher://gopher.msu.edu:3441 It sorts the groups by threads and date received, and you can choose which display you prefer. Brad