On Tue, 5 May 1998 18:46:32 GMT, Bart Addis <bart@FAST.NOSPAM.NET>
wrote:

>Most of all I want to thank the people who have made the following
>suggestions, most made by email, that I'm sending back to the group
>since they've helped me be more productive, and have forever sated my
>thirst for a newsgroup:
>
>1) There is a well-known windows newsreader called Agent which, when
>configured as a mail reader, will thread the messages as if they are a
>newsgroup.  A folder called "inbox" appears in the same window as all
>of the subscribed newsgroups.  Very slick.  This product costs $29
>from Forte, Inc:
>
>http://www.forteinc.com
>
>The demo version of this product, Free Agent, does not support
>SMTP/POP/email, so you've got to buy the full version to try this out.
>A bargain at twice the price, IMHO.
>
>A word of warning:  the best way to set this up is to subscribe to the
>piclist with an email address other than the one you use for general
>email, since the threading works best when only piclist traffic is
>coming to the address.  I used an address I have on a client's server
>which I never use for anything else, which is ideal.  Note that the
>free email from yahoo.com requires you to use their web-based
>interface instead of POP, so it won't work.

I would just like to add my two off-topic cents to this thread.  I use
the commercial version of Agent for news and email, and am very happy
with it.  However, you *can*, very easily, set up "watch filters" that
will move documents from a certain address (actually, with any
specified text in any specified header line) to a specific folder for
you.

I use this to move all of my PICLIST traffic to its own folder, and do
the same with several other mailing lists (all much lower traffic,
however).  It works quite well, and each folder has message threading
just like a newsgroup.

 - Rick "Not Free, but quite reasonable" Dickinson

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