Hello Allie, > Can you think of one that does both well? :)
Yes, and I am sure Greg Strong will agree with me, Virtual Access. It did (does) e-mail and news, plus Compuserve and CIX. <snipped quite a bit> I will only say one more thing, and for the last time, about this e-mail and news integration issue. As you know, I *am already* using TB for news, so I personally don't care if TB really incorporates that or not. From the point of view of the functionality of the client program (i.e. TB), what is the big difference of this mail list and a newsgroup? Basically the protocols used. You use POP to connect to your POP server and collect (from you POP mailbox) the messages, and SMTP connect to your SMPT server to send. While if this list was a newsgroup you would use NNTP to connect to your news server for both collecting and sending. But threading, filtering, templates, colour groups, etc., etc., can be and are the same. And I am proving that point with my setup. What MailTraq's News<->Mail gateway "black box" does for me is basically to convert from one protocol to another. What other functionality would the client program (TB) need if an account was created for news instead of e-mail?. Yes, of course, downloading the list of groups from the server and allowing you to subscribe and un-subscribe. What else, perhaps downloading headers only? Messages Dispatcher does already on POP mailboxes, it shouldn't be that difficult to adapt it. And I haven't mentioned IMAP which maybe much more "similar" to NEWS. To finish, I think and believe that The Bat would be a very good news reader (it is :) without having to put much effort in development. Most of the things needed are there already, I really believe so. I *do* use TB for news, and quite satisfactorily, so I'll leave the news yes news no "battle" to others. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.61 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
