Jeff -- I've been thru this issue many times and have settled on outlook add-ins. If you use Microsoft Outlook, these have the functions you want. IntraVNews is "free" for personal use, but their latest version seems to lock you out if you use a Microsoft Exchange server. The other add-in is Newsgator and costs $29 if my memory hasn't failed me. I really liked intravnews, but I quit using them when they "automatically" changed me from personal to business use. Newsgator is used by many people who live in outlook. Give these two a look -- Newsgator has a 14 day trial.
Jim Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Cook Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] New Online WhatsUp Gold Forum An RSS feed DOES NOT provide the functionality that a mailing list does. I have been testing Feedreader and it does OK. You can't reply to a message, you can't forward, you can't save the message in a different folder, and you can't delete a message you have read. So all of the messages just sit there. Also a very big thing to me is that I can't read it while at lunch like I do with all of my other mailing lists and forums. I sync my lists and groups that each has their own email folder to my handheld. I can flip though them while I eat lunch or when ever I have a few minutes like waiting for a meeting to start. I can even write my replies. Now I have to be on-line to read and on-line to reply. If I'm at my desk I have a lot of other things I should be doing. Because of the new forum I have spent an extra 2 hours at work this week reading and dealing with this group. So my big question is why a forum? It has not saved me any time only making it harder and more work to keep up to date. Jeff Cook Network Administrator Whatcom Educational Credit Union -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Foxley Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] New Online WhatsUp Gold Forum This sounds great...The RSS feeds should take care of us who will miss the features of a mailing list. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brian Smith Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] New Online WhatsUp Gold Forum Dear WhatsUp Forum, We would like to introduce you to the brand new WhatsUp Gold forum that is available for your participation. As was requested by many of you, we wanted to offer an easier way for WhatsUp Gold users to communicate together. This new online forum will provide users with an online community and a number of great benefits: - RSS feeds - Threaded discussions - Members can edit or delete previous replies within the forums, - Subscribe to forums and topics and receive email notifications for new posts - New posts since your last visit are highlighted Take a look and sign up today. http://www.ipswitch.com/forums/messages.aspx?ForumID=5 We will still continue to keep this email forum live for a period of time, so that users can interact in the way in which they prefer. It is our intent, however, to take full advantage of this new online forum to really build a strong community. Thanks! Kelly <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Kelly E. Anderson Product Marketing Manager Ipswitch, Inc. (P) 781.676.5734 (F) 781.676.5720 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
