Ivan Pope wrote,
>All in all, I think we are missing a large part of the potential of the
>Internet because our tools are primitive.
I agree! I realized a few months ago that I want an e-mail program that
will display by mailing list messages in a very different way that my
personal messages. I want to be able to track who posts on what topics, who
posts how often, who I've decided to ignore, who I particularly like, etc.
Yes, yes, I know that Usenet newsreaders have most of those features, and
that I can hack together such an e-mail program with UNIX tools, but
that's not the point.
If programs were widely available that were designed to make it easy to
participate in an e-mail-based discussion -- supporting the user's efforts
to keep track of who's who and what we're talking about -- mailing lists
would be far more useful.
Margy Levine Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Coauthor of "The Internet For Dummies," 5th Ed. and "Windows 98: The
Complete Reference" <http://net.gurus.com>
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