VA can handle the following:

- POP/SMTP email
- Newsgroups public and private
- Compuserve and CIX proprietary mail systems
- Compuserve and CIX forums
- Compuserve and CIX libraries
- Local Area Network Workgroups

Benefits include:

- Access all subscribed services in a single connection
- Single or multiple users
- Sophisticated threading of mail and news - no need to ever highlight text when replying to news messages again
- Complex archiving - prune datafiles to given plain text ascii files according to rules.
- Edit message headers - useful for 'no spam' reply addresses.
- Message filtering rules
- Auto responding
- multilingual spellchecking options ($15 per language, English free).
- Supports plug ins - several plug ins available now.

Etc. Etc.

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