On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:27:02AM -0500, nate at refried.org wrote: > Web forums have always sucked, IMNSHO. The last forums that I actually > liked, you could download the messages in QWK packets to read them > offline. Some people like the GUI environment. I have NEVER understood it for mail / forum type things. I've got webmail running for my wife and step-daughters. I freaked out the younger girl a couple of months back. She was working on my Win98 box reading webmail, I was working on my Linux box in console mode. She groaned about having "lots" of e-mail to go through - something like 30-40. (Yeah, I know.) She started in on hers at the same time I started in my Bujold list backlog - about 350 messages. She leaned back and breathed a sigh of relief when she was done - and I told her that in the time she'd taken to process her 30-40, I'd done 350. She was ... surprised. Those graphic screen re-writes KILL productivity. So, explain to me WHY we should want to use an environment that is INHERENTLY slower to read what is essentially text information? -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org