On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:07:16 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Clams Canino wrote:

Actually it's done as a courtesy for people who set their newsreader to
automaticly filter out OT posts.

-W

Speaking of newsreaders, so to speak, I've been playing around with the
full version of Agent again, and I still can't figure out why it is so
"popular."
It is a real kludge, and while it presents the user with a wide variety
of features that may be customized, there are lots of things it cannot
do without forcing the user to jump through many hoops.

I've been using Agent since its pre-release--over ten years. The one
disadvantage I find is the difficulty of using more than one server. And
yes--it is a pain. For those few cases where I need to use multiple servers, I
use multiple agent.ini files. It is a kludge that is supposed to be corrected
with 2.0, due out Any Day Now.

If your Agent is slow, there is *definitely* something wrong--IME, it is as fast
as or faster than anything else out there, even on a slow machine.

Joe Parsons

As an example, setting it up to read posts emanating from a number of
servers - it can be done, but it takes considerable effort. And the
program doesn't make much effective use of the mouse right-clicks.
And...it is slow.

I far prefer Mozilla, even with its warts and occasional crashes.





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