Douglas Winship wrote:

>  The surname is Winship, not Harwell (sic).

        Apologies.  I had to guess at it based on your email address; you did not
sign your posting.

I wrote:

>>         There is absolutely no indication that the LSoft folks are
"forgetting"
>> email-based list functionality.

You wrote:

>Sorry, I disagree.  The emphasis these days seems to be on the currently
>popular "point 'n click" scheme as that is what sells, and if that is not
>compatible with the old procedure which has been used forever, too bad.
>The changes in this regard do not appear, to me, to be in the interest of
>making a better product, but cattering to the current whims of the buying
>public, with web/point 'n click taking precedence, as that is what sells.

        You may have a better understanding than me of the changes in the "old"
functionality versus the new, so I accept what you are saying.  However, to
the extent that Listserv embraces the power of the GUI and web environment,
it becomes far more usable for a great many more people -- just as occurred
when DOS gave way to Windows.

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