That's OpenOffice's primary discussion mailing list not a message board. Most open source software projects have their own mailing lists. Many post historical archives online like they do.
Bradley said he saw an article where the Greater Paris Regional Council purchased hundreds of thousands of USB drives and wanted more info. Sophie responded back asking what he wanted to know. She's the lead of OpenOffice's French Native Language Project and a member of their Community Council Governing Board. Once the two met, more than likely further emails were exchanged privately. Yeah, he probably wanted to see whether the GPRC was still looking for a USB drive vendor.
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