Concrete proposal
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* 'Register' web page
  - Same functionality as Mailman subscribe (piggyback Mailman list configuration)
  - Email delivery is turned off by default
  - Wording in emails should be altered ("forum" vs. "mailing list", "register" vs. "subscribe")

* Forum login web page
  - Piggyback Mailman user database.  We'll automagically achieve single sign-on whenever Mailman @ WineHQ does ;-).

* Threading and import daemon
  - Imports raw .eml files
  - Stores in DB
  - Assigns internal thread/topic ID to each mail based on Message-ID, References and Subject
  - Inspiration?: weaverd @ http://weaver.gmane.org/

* Forum web interface
  - Sorted by Category, assignable to each thread/topic
  - Threaded view
  - Search engine (use DB fulltext index)
  - Allow posting with your registered email address (automagically sets "Reply-To:list" !)
  - Allow ticking of topics you're interested in ("follow this topic" checkbox when posting or so)
  - Inspiration?: http://forums.mysql.com and phpBB

* Notification daemon
  - Pick up a list (DB) of which topics users want notifications for
  - For each new message in DB,
    - Send an email to interested users (if any)
    - Flag as 'notification complete'