>>I don't recognize the name "Thread Navigator". Was that before my time?
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>Based on your ID, yes. The Universal Thread Navigator installs itself on Windows and provide the ability to work with messages only by downloading everything locally, reply to a lot of messages and upload in batch. Basically, you download a bunch of messages locally, could work offline, and connect to upload and recheck for new messages. It's a very powerful tool with a very intuitive interface. But, it's for messages only. Now, that the messages area is pretty much stable as far as new features are concerned, we would be able to synchronize most of it with the UTNav so it'd be easier for us to maintain it.

That sounds interesting. I have a more or less permanent Internet conection now, but lets not forget that many people still have to pay by the hour, and keep their phone busy, for dial-up. It is for these reasons that "in principle", I prefer NNTP over WWW for discussion groups - except that the UT offers better features (and the adequate people!) than NNTP.