On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:41:02 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:03:02 -0400, JohnH penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:59:35 GMT, 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.

Agent has been handling binaries since it was free many years ago.
Pictures, movies, and audio files are all downloadable with the old
versions of Agent.

What is new is that it allows you to do so within Agent..... images,
image preview, and (if you so choose) images within HTML (obviously
excludes Usenet without attachments).

The preview sounds like a great idea. My version doesn't have that. I do
have a fast download capability, but sometimes it would be nice to preview
the equivalent of say 1000 lines, rather than wait for 40,000 lines to
download.
--
John