From what I've seen of the Navigator, it's nowhere near as powerful or as easy to use as the off-line readers for CIS. Plus, CIS offers forums with a much greater diversity of interests than the UT does.

>Perry,
>I see that you are a PUTM on UT.
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>As a Premier Universal Thread Membership member you can download the Navigator for UT. With the navigator you can download and upload messages to UT. You can also read offline all downloaded messages. You can also get the archive from UT.
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>Check out the URL http://www.levelextreme.com/archive.asp
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>>>What's the problem with searching messages here?
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>>I am just indicating that CServe offers another method. There's nothing wrong with the UT search. Cserve offers the benefit of the monthly archive in a DBF format. So u can do anything with the message base u want, once its on your local drive.
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>>PF