On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:13:11 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:11:21 -0400, Harry Krause penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Yeah, I know how it works. I just don't like the way it works. Too
annoying, involved, intricate, et cetera. And it sucks on email.

You may want to look at the way email filtering works. Totally
intuitive...though I still won't recommend the program until nested
folders....



Gene, T'bird presents any number of ways to filter email "intuitively."

What is it that "Agent" does that is important, significant and unique?

Stick with T'bird!
--
John

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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You think "downloading the group names" and "selecting the groups you
want" is something unique, eh?

Unique? No.

Easy? Yes!
--
John

No easier than any of a half dozen other programs.

Next?

Some people use Agent or Mozilla apps simply to "boycott" Microsoft. Not
sure if that's the case with anyone here, but arguing about the merits of 3
things that are almost identical is pointless.

The only reason I stick with Outlook Express is because last time I tried
Agent & Thunderbird, they could not do this:

In a newsgroup, imagine two sorted lists. At the top of the list of headers,
I have my "watched" threads, in red, with the latest thread subject at the
top of the list. Not the latest message - the latest subject.

Further down the list of stuff, a list begins in black. These are UNwatched
threads. Whether I've peaked at them or not, they are black until I mark
them as "watched". This list is also sorted with latest date at the top.

Last time I tried Thunderbird, I found I could mark watched threads, but
could not sort ALL the watched threads so they'd be at the top of the
general heap of threads. Instead, they were interspersed throughout the
general list, in date order. They were still visible, but if I was watching
a thread that began two weeks ago, it could be WAY down in the list. Dumb.
Of course, no help is available in the Moz newsgroups, except the standard
"Duh...it cuz u've uz Windoze. Get Linux".

I don't recall what the deal was with Agent. It's visit to my computer
lasted three days. Probably the same "failure to sort" issue.

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:13:11 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:11:21 -0400, Harry Krause penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Yeah, I know how it works. I just don't like the way it works. Too
annoying, involved, intricate, et cetera. And it sucks on email.

You may want to look at the way email filtering works. Totally
intuitive...though I still won't recommend the program until nested
folders....



Gene, T'bird presents any number of ways to filter email "intuitively."

What is it that "Agent" does that is important, significant and unique?

Stick with T'bird!
--
John

He asked a fair question.

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:13:07 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"JohnH" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:13:11 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:11:21 -0400, Harry Krause penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Yeah, I know how it works. I just don't like the way it works. Too
annoying, involved, intricate, et cetera. And it sucks on email.

You may want to look at the way email filtering works. Totally
intuitive...though I still won't recommend the program until nested
folders....



Gene, T'bird presents any number of ways to filter email "intuitively."

What is it that "Agent" does that is important, significant and unique?

Stick with T'bird!
--
John

He asked a fair question.


Harry's rational for not using Agent was, "...Too annoying, involved,
intricate, et cetera." I discussed those.

Now he wants a comparison. As I don't use T'bird, that would be difficult,
annoying, involved, intricate, et cetera.

Besides, if Agent was too intricate, any comparison would be even more so.
--
John

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:13:07 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:13:11 -0400, Harry Krause

wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:11:21 -0400, Harry Krause penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Yeah, I know how it works. I just don't like the way it works. Too
annoying, involved, intricate, et cetera. And it sucks on email.

You may want to look at the way email filtering works. Totally
intuitive...though I still won't recommend the program until nested
folders....



Gene, T'bird presents any number of ways to filter email "intuitively."

What is it that "Agent" does that is important, significant and unique?

Stick with T'bird!
--
John

He asked a fair question.


Harry's rational for not using Agent was, "...Too annoying, involved,
intricate, et cetera." I discussed those.

Now he wants a comparison. As I don't use T'bird, that would be difficult,
annoying, involved, intricate, et cetera.

Besides, if Agent was too intricate, any comparison would be even more so.
--
John

I guess the real question would be why would you opt for third party
software when there's a perfectly OK mail & news program as part of Windows?

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:13:11 -0400, Harry Krause penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


What is it that "Agent" does that is important, significant and unique?

At this point, probably nothing....

..... but then we could say that about any newsreader or email client,
I suppose.

Lets see where the roadmap takes them...

If there was a roadmap, they know where it was taking them. We're talking
about a vegetable peeler, not a new method of space travel. How much more
can a vegetable peeler do?

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:13:11 -0400, Harry Krause penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

What is it that "Agent" does that is important, significant and unique?
At this point, probably nothing....

..... but then we could say that about any newsreader or email client,
I suppose.

Lets see where the roadmap takes them...

If there was a roadmap, they know where it was taking them. We're talking
about a vegetable peeler, not a new method of space travel. How much more
can a vegetable peeler do?


Haven't seen all the nifty third-party extensions to T'bird and Firefox,
eh?


Although I use Firefox, I'm still wary of "gifts" from the open sauce mob
associated with Mozilla. They have a hideous reputation for caring little
about quality.