The Microsoft Exchange client contains all the features expected from an e-mail client, and several new innovations. E-mail messages can now be richly formatted in the same way as a word processing document. Different fonts, type styles and colors may all be used in order to better convey an idea. Advanced sorting of mail is supported. These assistants work on the server, processing mail even if the user's computer is not switched on.
Public folders allow information to be shared, discussions to be held, or files distributed.
Like most things these days, Listserv has joined the Web. Due to popular demand and to make life a little easier for those wanting to search mailing list archives, the developers of Listserv have come up with a World Wide Web interface to those archives. L-Soft International, the makers of Listserv, have also made available via the Web a database of all known mailing lists handled by other Listservs. Well, if you've never spent too much time scouring various Internet sources for a list you wanted to subscribe to or spent days reading through mailing list archives searching for the answer to a simple question that might have been asked in the list, then you've lived a sheltered Internet existence and this article may not mean much to you. As illustrated in the figure below, you can search through entire list archives in seconds and receive an index of any articles matching your criteria.