Re: OT-CHAT: Archives, Digests, threads and ISPs

As to newsreaders - I am sorry - I misspoke when I referred to newsreaders in 
reference to this list.   AOL handles both mail and the newsgroups the same 
as to threading I think (i.e. they don't do it - I know they don't for mail). 
 

For everything except this list and the aol boards, I use another ISP and use 
something other than the proprietary aol software.  This software (Agent is 
the name of it) handles mail and newsgroups the same by the thread, although 
with mail, I can pick to have it by thread or by author or by date.  I think 
of aol as very user unfriendly.

There are some e-mail access providers that do not do the internet - 
compuserve isn't AFAIK one of them.  It is a full service ISP.  I do not know 
how it handles mail, although I thought that at one time aol and compuserve 
were merging so I thought it might be similar.  Juno used to be like this 
(i.e. e-mail only), and also pocketmail is still limited to e-mail.   I'm not 
sure about hotmail. Those folks with those services will be unable to access 
the archives.

One reason why I do not get the digest is that it is too hard to get the 
threads in order.  I have each e-mail list sent to a specific mailbox so that 
the iris list doesn't get mixed up with other stuff, and that way I can read 
it at leisure, one thing at a time, or even skip stuff I'm not interested in. 
 With the digest I have to download the whole thing regardless.  Once I 
figured out that I didn't have to get  the digest, I never went back to it. 
YMMV.

RosalieAnn

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