On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:19:32 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On 2 Sep 2006 13:07:41 -0700, penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

I'm out of the loop with what you all are talking about, but I've been
very satisfied with Google. It can go back to 1996 on some stuff.
probably even farther than that.

I can't do binaries though.


oh well.......

Although they are outfitting Agent to handle binaries, I'm not a
picture collector and if I was.... I'm not sure I'd use Agent, yet,
anyway.

At this point in development, I think that Agent's strengths lie in
its ability to filter, killfile, and the configurability of the
interface. So, if you are tired of reading OffTopic crap, google is
not you best source.

If OE does all you want, fine, but I've never cared for Outlook in any
of its iterations. In fact, there are some other really great
newsreaders out there, but some are orphaned and some suffer from lack
of speed.

There still are quite a few here that use Agent.



Too annoying, arcane. involved, and how does it handle multiple email
and news accounts?

The newsgroup filters in Thunderbird work fine, plus the program is
improved on an ongoing basis, with all manner of features added by third
parties. Some of these features are very interesting or helpful or both.

Agent enable subscription to as many newsgroups as you desire. You can
download headers in all the subscribed groups or just those you select. You
can download just the new headers or all the headers. Using the email
capability requires the input of the account info, just as any email
program does.

I use ms outlook for email though.
--
John