CompuServe Thread

I wish! I looked around on CIS for some sort of indexing-type software, and the only things I found were shareware deals that ended up being pretty high dollar without allowing for a freely-distributable search-engine (was hoping that one could compile the database and upload it, but…). Anyone got any ideas? Dave

Rick, For filing messages, WinCim isn't really the best. What I use is CIS' new navigator, CSNAV (GO CSNAV). It allows me to name custom folders, and save whatever individual massages I want to them. They can then be sorted by subject, date, sender, etc., but you can't search the message text for keywords. It's also so new that it doesn't have a manual yet, and can be a little confusing to set up at first. Another solution is GoCis (GO WUGNET). This will also search, (sort), as above, but it *also* allows you to search the message text for keywords. The downside is that it doesn't allow for custom folders, so all your messages from a forum are in one big folder for that forum. But the biggest reason to go with one of the above, (or similar), is that they allow you to go online, download just the message headers you want to retrieve and mark them offline, (no $), and then log back on and automatically retrieve just these messages, saving lots of money. Other good ones are TapCis and OzCis, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. One last alternative would be to keep appending messages to an exported text file, which you could search for keywords, but you wouldn't have any message sorting capability.

Richard – hardly state-of-the-art, but I use Tapcis and Recon to access Compuserve. Recon is a front-end to Tapcis that takes care of sorting messages and lets you capture individual messages or threads into files. I then use Norton's Text Search to find keywords.