"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.