On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:13:30 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:53:00 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: >> Yep, 34 messages is low volume. If you had a couple of hundred to >> sort through then Arachne's Insight would drive you crazy.
> I often have multi-hundred messages to plow through, I've used IE & N > both on 'top end' machines, and Arachne is the best way to get rid of > crap quickly & easily that I've found. I've never used IE or N for email, so I wouldn't know how Arachne copares to them. I'll take your word for it in that regard. My benchmark for email performance is Pine from a Unix shell, which even on low end equipment will run circles around Arachne eight days a week. By comparison Arachne is slow and kludgy. Pine is direct and robust. The index takes you automatically to the first unread message and gives you the sender and subject in an easily read format that lets you see twenty five or thirty emails at a glance. You can hold down the delete key if you want and mark all the messages for deletion, you can select, read, forward, save to folders, whatever. You can harvest addresses to lists. You can reply to all recipients. You can search through directories for the files you want to attach and attach them. And you can do all of this easily, without special knowledge or ability just by reading the prompts and included helpscreens. It was designed to be easy to use for the uninitiated and have the features needed by academics who swim in vast seas of text. You can read and post to newsgroups. Sent mail is saved by the month. You can set up all sorts of nifty filters. And on and on. All of this and more in lightning fast text mode. It smokes. It would be worth the trouble to get a shell account if you had to manage a large volume of email text. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
