I want HyperNews done right in the same ways you have listed and more.
I know Hypermail is the email archive of choice, but HyperNews is
receiving continuing development attention, whereas Hypermail is
relatively static. So I'd rather see community efforts directed
toward HyperNews. With a configuration option, I could make HyperNews
even look like Hypermail, if familiarity is a factor.
I'm going to add the bidirectional email support to HyperNews RSN and
then I'll have to address all the same issues you listed.
> I saw some activity in news:comp.lang.python along this direction. Any
> takers around here?
HyperNews is written in Perl, but I've entertained the idea of
rewriting in Python or Java.
Daniel LaLiberte (liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~liberte/
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/hypernews.html