On Tue, 23 Jan '07 20:42:57 -0500, Gene Kearns wrote:
since the release of Agent 4.0, Free Agent has been
discontinued...

Free Agent is still available. The last standalone version is 1.21
IIRC, available he
http://freepctech.com/rode/018.shtml

Later versions also available in places like:
http://mirrors.easynews.com//agent/f...agent/english/

The only option I miss with Free Agent is "Mail".... maybe filter
capabilty too. But it beats the hell outta trying to read
Googlegroups, that's for sure.

As far as free news servers, I use Bubba News on the road (My
Bellsouth ISP won't allow news server connection from elsewhere, even
though I pay them for it). Bubba News charges $3.95 to register but
free after that. So far I've been happy with them. I don't know what
the capacity for the free service is, prolly not much (they offer
higher limits with their "pay" service), but I don't do binaries so
I've never hit their "free" limit.
http://www.bubbanews.com/

Rick