On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:12:28 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:44:21 -0400, HarryKrause
wrote:



Looks like it handles multiple news servers, but only one email account.
Not good enough.

Multiple email accounts and personalities are on the roadmap, but
aren't implemented as of yet. Frankly, I don't know when Agent will
catch up to The Bat!, Eudora, or Pegasus... so I don't use it for
email anyway.

The greatest thing I have found with the new Agent is that I can
choose separate servers for a single group... such as rec.boats. IOW,
I have my separate pick and priority of which server(s) to use for
header retrieval, message retrieval, and posting. If you care to run a
third party filter, as I have done (until the last 2-3 weeks for
testing purposes), you can retrieve headers through the filter, but
retrieve messages from a larger constellation of servers.

Again, I think Agent is tops for text based USENET, but if you are
into binaries or want more that very basic email, IMHO, you will be
best served by more than one program....

Seeing how's you like to experiment with this stuff, you might want to
look into Xnews. You can customize it to your hearts content.

I know a lot of nerds and geeks who use it.

By the way, I updated to 3.0 and so far, I'm impressed with what
they've done, although I don't like the folders feature at this point.
Every single newsgroup I've visited in the past two years is there and
you just can't delete them all - you have to do it one at a time.

That's not a good feature when you are talking about 30 newsgroups.

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:57:28 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 02:12:28 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:44:21 -0400, HarryKrause
wrote:



Looks like it handles multiple news servers, but only one email account.
Not good enough.

Multiple email accounts and personalities are on the roadmap, but
aren't implemented as of yet. Frankly, I don't know when Agent will
catch up to The Bat!, Eudora, or Pegasus... so I don't use it for
email anyway.

The greatest thing I have found with the new Agent is that I can
choose separate servers for a single group... such as rec.boats. IOW,
I have my separate pick and priority of which server(s) to use for
header retrieval, message retrieval, and posting. If you care to run a
third party filter, as I have done (until the last 2-3 weeks for
testing purposes), you can retrieve headers through the filter, but
retrieve messages from a larger constellation of servers.

Again, I think Agent is tops for text based USENET, but if you are
into binaries or want more that very basic email, IMHO, you will be
best served by more than one program....

Seeing how's you like to experiment with this stuff, you might want to
look into Xnews. You can customize it to your hearts content.

I know a lot of nerds and geeks who use it.

By the way, I updated to 3.0 and so far, I'm impressed with what
they've done, although I don't like the folders feature at this point.
Every single newsgroup I've visited in the past two years is there and
you just can't delete them all - you have to do it one at a time.

That's not a good feature when you are talking about 30 newsgroups.

Oh, and they still haven't added multiple email servers which was
supposed to be accomplished in 2.0 but never was.

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:39:22 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

The is a very liberal
upgrade policy

Well, I've been using Agent for many years, and have been very happy
with it, but I'll be darned if I'm going to support some gosh darned
liberal software company. Damnit, anybody got a suggestion for a good
old fashioned flag waving, god fearing, family oriented news reader?

Rot In Hell Forte!!!!


bb

Im using outlook express, works great for me has filters so you can filter
out some of the junk posts.

Ed
"bb" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:39:22 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

The is a very liberal
upgrade policy

Well, I've been using Agent for many years, and have been very happy
with it, but I'll be darned if I'm going to support some gosh darned
liberal software company. Damnit, anybody got a suggestion for a good
old fashioned flag waving, god fearing, family oriented news reader?

Rot In Hell Forte!!!!


bb

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:09:23 GMT, bb wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:39:22 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

The is a very liberal upgrade policy

Well, I've been using Agent for many years, and have been very happy
with it, but I'll be darned if I'm going to support some gosh darned
liberal software company. Damnit, anybody got a suggestion for a good
old fashioned flag waving, god fearing, family oriented news reader?

Rot In Hell Forte!!!!

Wha?

Oh, wait - I get it - I get jokes.