Hello George M. Menegakis,

On Montag, 18. M�rz 2002 at 18:10, you wrote:

> But,  that's the point of what I wrote erlier. Downloading messages from
> news  is  way  different than downloading from pop or imap.
Well, there are components for Delphi, that bring this (nntp) functionality.

> Threading is somewhat  different.
Uh? TB is able to do threading and it is able to thread by
(it's own?) MsgId's ...

> Composing is the same but posting, well, it is way different.
It's just nntp and not smtp.

> Not  to  mention  thing  like  canceling, getting newsgroups
> lists, syncronize them et cetera et cetera...
Of course. There are some things to do, but there is a lot of
funcionality there.

> It  has  no  point  talking about newsreading capabilities whithout have
> complete  mail  reading  abilities.  For  example The Bat! doesn't fully
> support IMAP. IMAP has greater priority than newsreading.
I agree, that should be cleaned up before.

> I  think that if you have to do a thing then do it right. Does it sounds
> good to you The Bat being a powerfull mail reader and clumsy newsreader?
They could mark the plugin as beta, so no one has to complain about
missing features.

-- 
Bye,
 Patrick Cornelissen
 http://www.P-C-Software.de 
 ICQ:15885533

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