>>I understood that the search option was not available for non-registered
>>members, but I would have thought that the ability to walk backward on
>>the article tree/map was a basic necessity for any conferencing
>>program....
>I would be interested to know how many threaded messages system that
>will allow you to get the map of prior messages that we have already
>read.

Ummm... any Unix newsreader?

>AFAIK, you can't go back in time for more than 2 weeks in CIS, can't get
>the map for messages you already read in Newsgroups and this is not
>available in Listserv as well.

rn could always do ^N and ^P for next and previous with the same subject, and trn actually _does_ draw a map at the top of the screen, with read, unread, and missing messages clearly marked.

I know this isn't a democracy, but I just wanted to make my opinion known. :-)