Re: posts & retaliation

[TRaffertu@xxxxxxx]

        Hi John,

         I think you just gave me a reason to keep useing America On Line.
 If I read you correctley you (and others) are saying they can not preview
and deleate e-mail without first down loading it with any attachments.

         Let me describe AOL's e-mail system to you.  When you click the
famous "You've got mail" icon you get a screen showing a list of all mail
received since last time you checked it.  The list has 3 columns:  Date,
Sender, and Subject.

          I first scann down the subject list and delete what I am not
interested in (things such as Test, Unsubscribe, Hog futures, etc.).  You
just highlight it and click delete and it is gone.  I then double click on
the first E-mail in the list to read it.  AOL has a 2 little buttons that
take you to the next or previous E-mail on the list.  I just keep clicking
"next" and reading.  When I am done, I go back to the list and delete or save
what I want.  If the E-mail message has a file attached to it, 2 more buttons
are shown which say Down Load Now  and Down Load Later.  If I click download
now,  AOL tells me how large the file is and how long it will take to
download, so I can opt out if it is to large and do it later.  If I do
nothing it downloads the attached file and saves it (but not the e-mail
message) to a sub-directory called logically enough "download".  It then pops
up on screen to read or print.   I can delete files from "download" just like
deleting any other Windows file.

          If I do not click download, I can go back to the list and delete
both the e-mail message and the attached file without then ever going on my
hard drive, or I can save both of them in my "Personal Fileing Cabinet" in
AOL for use later.

          This process is so fast and easy that it takes longer to describe
than do.  AOL started out as a bullitin board and e-mail service and later
"attached" a web brouser.  Web brousers started out as just that and then
"attached" e-mail.  So sometimes you sacrifice one featuer for another.

           If anyone knows of a good wed brouser that handles e-mail this
well please let me know.
                                                    Good luck and good
trading,
                                                             Ray Raffurty