HI Alan,
> >With email, they show up in my email, and I have rules to sort them
> >into separate folders. I don't need to poll.
>
> You're not considering opening your email program, receiving, and
> looking at the folder to see if there are new messages 'polling'? It is
> simply something you are used to doing. For that matter, it would be
> fairly trivial to have an 'email' program that also pulled in the
> messages from a board, just like you like. Heck, it's probably out
> there, I have had the idea a time or two before but never looked really.
Well, my email program is always open, and it automatically receives
new messages.
Then with one quick glance, I've checked the equivalent of 50 forums.
I don't even need to look in the folders to see if something is there,
because if there are unread messages, the folder name is in bold and
has the number of unread messages in parenthesis beside it.
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Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/