On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/9/2002 3:08:55 PM Eastern Standard > Time, Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> writes: > > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:02, Mark Tiller wrote: > >> True, both can handle just the same, but a newsgroup can > >> handle threads much better. > > How so? ?email handles threads just fine, assuming you have > > an email client that supports proper threading, and other > > people's email clients add In-Reply-To: tags. ?You > > shouldn't say email doesn't handle it just because there > > are broken email clients out there. > I can, since the world's largest email provider (AOL) > actually *forbids* the use of email clients. That's not email. That's AOL. Of course it sucks, but don't taint us with AOL when AOL has been ignoring our properly-designed conventions for decades. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp