> > The only advantage I can think of but its a major one is you can select
> > which
> > topics your interested in to save you downloading messages you don't want.
> > Not
> > all Sam users are interested in all sam subjects surely.
>
> As far as I know, most news clients do not do this, or at least people don't
> generally do it because just downloading all messages is quicker than trying
> to decide which ones you want.
>
Well I use Forte's Free Agent which allows me to download the headers/subjects
on
their own which I do for all my subscribed newsgroups and then select offline
which
bodies I want. Meaning I can download my newsgroups and email and possibly a
small
file or two in roughly five minutes alternate evenings and then go online
longer at
weekends. It works well phone call wise but it does mean I'm slow at getting the
full bodies. I.e. monday download headers, wednesday download selected bodies,
Friday reply to bodies.
>
> Nevertheless, if a news client can do this there is no reason why a mail
> client shouldn't be able to.
>
yeah I think the full version of agent allows this so you can avoid spam by not
downloading the bodies to these. Free Agent only allows you to send email so I
use
netscape communicator for my email needs and browsing of course. I take your
point
previously about some people not newsgroup enabled and I wouldn't like to deny
anyone access. I suspect someone clever enough could figure out a way of making
a
combined newsgroup/mailing list so the same messages go to both you simply
choose
either a newsgroup or mailing list as your personal preference.
>
> imc
