Re^3: plz replace this super ugly & damned bad board by a supergood one: take open source [of course]

[bart]

However the move of many groups to plain mailing lists makes it far more difficult to follow threads

Use a proper mail client, one that respects threads. This is a solved problem, all mails that are replies have a "References:" header with a list of message ideas it is a followup to — not just of the parent, so the thread structure is retained even if some messages go missing.