At 03:01 AM 05/19/2000, Carol Sue wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* Sgt. George, just a lurker here who's been trying to learn. Wanted to thank you for recommending Eudora. I installed it today and much prefer it to the Outlook Express I was using. Which by the way I was using when the kak worm came though on this list the other day. I tried Netscape also, which I liked less than Outlook. But think I am going to be very happy with Eudora. I am going to recommend it to my relatives. Thanks again. Carol Sue **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************** Hi Carol Sue. Thanks for trying Eudora. Not that I have any interest in it, other than being a long-time user, and thinking that users, who use the "default" Microsoft products because they were installed on their systems, should have other choices. There are several very good email programs, all of which are far superior to Outlook and Outlook Express; besides Eudora, there is Pegasus and Agent, just to name three. I manage 20 Mailing Lists at Rootsweb, plus subscribe to 2 or 3 dozen more (I've lost the exact count). Not all Listowners use Eudora, of course, but many, many do, and more are switching every day. When managing hundreds and hundreds of daily emails on our Mailing Lists, we need a program that offers the greatest versatility, is the easiest to use, offers a multitude of utilities to make List management easier, etc. Yes, MS Outlook and Outlook Express offers most of the features that Eudora does, but not to the depth and degree. When one works daily with dozens of Lists, one needs to be able to have multiple mailboxes and sub-mailboxes; one needs to have instantly available multiple "Signatures", multiple "Personalities", and multiple "Stationery" (form-letters or form-emails). Be sure to subscribe to the EUDORA-MAIL List (which I also manage) to keep up with the latest news. Eudora will handle multiple email accounts, from different servers, with ease. The ONLY fault I (and other users) have found is that it tends to be "resource-hungry" if one doesn't keep the number of emails in various mailboxes down to a low level. By this, I mean that if you keep hundreds of emails in your IN mailbox, every time you start Eudora, loading all those emails and making them instantly available, eats up Windows Resources. Any time you open a Mailbox and it contains hundreds of emails, that eats up more Resources. QualComm, the company that produces Eudora, has been working on this problem for some time, but, to date, hasn't been able to reduce the amount of Resources required to run Eudora. Of course, the current version, 4.3, is a heck of a lot better than past versions. There is a tradeoff when using different email programs. Do you want instant access to emails, or do you want to wait for the program to access the emails at the server? Instant access means that the emails must be on your system, and loaded when Eudora starts; being willing to wait means that the emails are NOT fully loaded when you start the program, and you must wait for the program to access them at the server (such as Agent does). Most of us prefer instant access, and only run into problems with System Resources when we also have many other things being loaded when Windows starts. The secret is to load as few things as possible when starting Windows. Gotta go. Don't forget I'm always available for discussion of Viruses or email programs, SgtGeorge