On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:36:22 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:58:06 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:23:18 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:47:34 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:34:58 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:02:30 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:


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

That is supposed to be undertaken next. Forte is dead slow in writing
code, but their product is pretty bug free when released. Also, they
don't go digging in your pocked for extra money when they release most
updates.

Trust me, they've take a LOT of heat over this email
servers/personas/filtering issue.

Gene, have you started using 3.0? I'm still on 1.91/32...

Haven't had any problems with it, and I'm wondering if I'd gain a lot going to
3.0.

For my money (the $20 it took to upgrade) it's sort of kinda worth
it.

Based solely on one day's worth of use, I've noticed the following.

Binary retrieval is much quicker. Login is a tad slower. Multiple
newservers are now working and seem to work well. Multiple email
accounts are still not part of Agent - don't know if that's important
to you or not.

The interface has completely changed and once you get used to it, is
more efficient.

Other than that, I haven't played with it enough to decide which was
better.

Thanks, Tom.

When you loaded the new version, did you have to delete the old? I'm wondering
if it's possible to have both versions, just in case I don't like the new one
all that much.

There is a trick to do that, it's not hard, but as long as I had paid
for it, I figured it didn't really matter. The new Agent is not
backward compatible.

Now, one thing I forgot. Every newsgroup you have visited at one time
or another will show up in the sampled newsgroups and all folders
folder.

So...well, let's just leave it at that. :)

Seriously, it's a good upgrade and they've done some work with this.
It still won't do multiple email accounts though and that's a PIA.

Really! Well, suppose one didn't want other potential users to notice that one
had frequented a porno group like 'rec.boats'. Could one not delete the group
name from the sampled newsgroups and all folders folder?

Thanks again for the feedback.

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD