>>2 Mail and News is better (i am not talking about MS exchange)
>have different mail client, but I still prefer the newsrdr program on the university's VAX/VMS system (now there's stubborness!)

I used to love the old unix mailer, but eventually i moved forward <s>

>>3 HTML lang is richer
>agreed, and it would be the only thing that might motivate me to migrate to MSIE

>>4 MSIE 3.0 does everything Netscape 3 does
>Yeah, but last time I tried MSIE I found it to be a bit slower
I don't this this is the case with MSIE 3.0 beta2
and anyway it supports more standards
ie. JScripts Java,VBScripts, ActiveX controls (<- the last one means better integration with VFP esp. with the next version)

>>5 MSIE is free
>Since I'm still a student, Netscape is also free!

nobody's perfect <s>