"John H" wrote in message
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:39:24 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" nowayalso.jose.com
wrote:


It's reading it in html. I post in text only. I am not sure what
to
change, so I'll leave things alone.

It's not your separator alone. I think it's your separator in
conjunction with mine, and when I try
to get rid of mine Agent says a 'persona' of 'none' won't work.

I'm not wild about this new, to me, Agent.
--

John H.

Hope you're having a great day!

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I tried "Agent" and "Thunderbird" years ago in their earlier
versions. I never saw any big benefit over the standard newsreader
that came with the various Windows mail and newsgroup packages.

I use "Windows Mail" on my Vista machine and "Windows Live Mail" on
the Windows 7 computer (this one). I have no problem reading
newsgroups and emails, I can filter by "Handle" or email address ...
or create custom filters. I see all the previous exchanges in a
thread and can delete or add anything to them. I can also sort the
treads by date, poster, conversation (which I use because it keeps all
posts on a subject together) or subject and can display in ascending
or decending mode by date. There are options to hide all read
messages, display all messages (including previously viewed ones)
and much more, including text only or html modes. I use text only
for newsgroups and html for email. . Once I determined the settings
I liked, reading newsgroups is as easy as reading emails.

I don't see any reason to use a "real" newsgroup reader like you hear
so many people talk about. Oh ... and I don't use a web based forum
like "Google" groups to read newsgroups.