All of the problems mentioned so far were real problems, however they had partial solutions. Out of Office replies, I rarely got but when they did appear I had some rules set up to deal with them. Spam was annoying, however this is mostly caught by my spam filter (there are a few free pop proxy style spam filters around, including a version of spamassassin). On a side note it may be possible to filter out all email addresses posted. I don't know of the tecnical resources out there but there are plenty of example regular expressions around to identify email addresses, which could then be replaced with somthing else eg <email address>.

I'd agree that the page was hard to read with the replies, headers, multipart messages etc, however I didn't use the site to post messages, and rarely went to the site to view posted messages.

I'm not saying that was there before was perfect, or even good, just that it worked well for me.

regards
David Cameron