> Well, the news readers tend to be better at reading shared mailboxes than > most IMAP clients. Atleast that's what they tell me, though I haven't > been fully impressed with any IMAP client's handling of a large number > of shared bboards.
The fundamental problem with most (almost all?) IMAP clients is that they do not understand the concept of a highwater mark (ie. highest message read) when accessing shared folders. The fundamental problem with newsgroups is that corporate people do not understand them at all, ie. "how can I send a message to everybody while not CCing everybody". That said, there are some things corporate newsgroups are good for. Like bi-directional mailing-list gateways. You only subscribe one address from the whole organisation instead of having 20+ guys getting it into their inbox. INN setup takes a few hours, after that it simply works and you _really_ don't need to touch it ever again unless upgrading a security fix or so. Just looking at things from my angle :) // kaj