WWWing cypherpunks

[Ferguson]

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