CompuServe Messages

The fault there is that GEnie's "REAd" command defaults to "ALL" instead of "NEW", and changing it now would break some front-ends and scripts that expect "REAd ##" with no parameters to mean "REAd ## ALL". I personally think they should make that change, and have the people who wrote scripts which don't tack on "ALL" have to do so. The "BROwse" and "RAM" shortcut commands both imply "NEW" so that isn't a problem for most users. As for computer magazines, I do keep certain ones that have articles of truly timeless value (such as a Computer Shopper with an Ask the Guru that has a table of PostScript screens that give good results on a 300dpi laser printer, published way back in 1989, I think). Some messages posted here are like that (such as, say, a tip on using the Keyframer and a Background to convert sequences of numbered still image files to FLiCS or vice-versa — that trick works on any version of 3DS, and so is of truly timeless value). The point is that much of the message traffic Joe was talking about is simply the same answers given to the same questions over and over again, so going the GEnie-like route would mitigate the scroll rate by eliminating the need to repeatedly answer the same question.