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. > > Sounds like a personal problem. I still am confused as to how AOL exists. Juno does the same thing, My opinion is you are not getting your needs served from companies like those and *you* are serving their needs of not wanting to explain to people how to configure e-mail servers in an e-mail client, becuase clearly that's to difficult for the average internet user.