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 perlanguage, English free). Supports plug ins - several plug ins available now.