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[Andy Burns]

Ever noticed that Agent only holds a small niche for the past 17
years?

I have an Agent licence that dates back to the windows 3.x and Trumpet
Winsock days (also licensed), then I dropped off usenet for a while, and
switched to Thunderbird as I was using Firebird for browsing.

Gee there is a reason for this and guess why?

People are willing to put up with a few foibles from free software,
rather than pay for software?

 

[Sam Hill]

...winston
msft mvp mail

Notice how much harder your post with WLM is to follow quotes. Or
actually a complete lack of them. "-->" is not a standard quoting
character. (Oh wait! Those are on the *new* content!) <lol>

Thanks for trying.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Only if you had a brain you would understand. Stupid people like you who
thinks they know it all are annoying. But that is what you want to be be
right? Of course it is.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:02:35 +0200, "Alias"

The irony!

+1

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I don't have any problems with Agent at all! I just don't like doing
things the hard way anymore! How dumb do you have to be to understand
this! Are you really that dumb?

Seems there is a pattern emerging...

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Char, are you trying to be as stupid as you can? Because you are doing a
great job of it if you are.

Hmmm...

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Keep dreaming bozo! Been there is done that. But I moved on. You will
too after 17 years. You just don't know any better yet. But you have
about 17 years of dreaming left and then you will realize what has
happened.

Hmmm...

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Yeah I connected the dots Alias! Dumb people like you are always
satisfied with crappy software. Intelligent people on the other hand
won't put up with that crap.

Hmmm...

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Naw... you are just a spoiled brat that has nothing better to do. You
are not the least bit intelligent and make things up as you go along.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

[Wolf K]

On 29/04/2012 7:29 PM, BillW50 wrote:
[...]

I didn't like any of
it and I hold bozos like you responsible for wasting all of my time.

[...]

That's right, if you don't like something, it must be someone else's fault!

Wow!

Wolf K.

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

I don't use the email features of Agent, so I don't care if it handles
one email account, a dozen email accounts, or no email accounts at
all.


Most newsreaders at the time probably didn't include email at all.

I've used Agent from before version 1 when it was just a news client
and still use it. Now it's email facilities are better than any other
email application that I've tried. The Bayesian email junk detection
and spam filtering in Agent are the best available.

Steve

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

You wouldn't be saying that if any of them included CTRL-H, a feature
that only you seem to think is critical.

I don't know which features are expected with CTRL & H but it is for
getting new headers in Agent.

Steve

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

In

Learn what? That Agent is one of the most complex and hard to use
programs ever? Why not tell the truth and say how it really is?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/122391/first_look_fortes_overly_complex_newsgroup_reader.html

Yes that is old article. But things really hasn't changed at all, has
it?

Agent is very easy to use. It does exactly what is needed plus more.
The people at PC World must be a bit thick or perhaps they found all
the extras too much to cope with! They don't have to be used.

Steve

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

Keep dreaming bozo! Been there is done that. But I moved on. You will
too after 17 years. You just don't know any better yet. But you have
about 17 years of dreaming left and then you will realize what has
happened.

There isn't any better yet. Agent can be as simple or as complex as
the users needs. I know it's default appearance looks a bit complex
but 90% of the facilities don't need to be used. I like this to be
east to use and so have reduce my Agent to the minimum set of buttons
I actually use. I only have 11 buttons in Agent.

Steve

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

In

I don't have any problems with Agent at all! I just don't like doing
things the hard way anymore! How dumb do you have to be to understand
this! Are you really that dumb?

Hard? I push a button to get all the news and another one if I want to
join in.

Steve

 

[Ken Blake]

As OE-QuoteFix repaired problems in OE, I wonder if there'll be a
WLM-QuoteFix to fix its problems?

I strongly doubt it. Dominik Jain hasn't done anything with
OE-Quotefix or Outlook-Quotefix for years now.

 

[XS11E]

There is no "right" newsreader for everyone.

But there IS a "wrong" newsreader for everyone and that would be one
that can't quote properly, such as Windows Live Mail.

 

[XS11E]

I strongly doubt it. Dominik Jain hasn't done anything with
OE-Quotefix or Outlook-Quotefix for years now.

I believe he stopped prior to Office 2007. AFAIK Outlook 2003 is the
last version for which Outlook Quotefix is available.

 

[Ken Blake]

I believe he stopped prior to Office 2007. AFAIK Outlook 2003 is the
last version for which Outlook Quotefix is available.

Thanks. I didn't remember exactly, but that sounds right to me.

 

[Ken Blake]

But there IS a "wrong" newsreader for everyone and that would be one
that can't quote properly, such as Windows Live Mail.

I'm with you completely. Windows Live Mail not only can't quote
properly in newsgroups, but it also can't quote properly in e-mail.
That makes it the wrong newsreader *and* the wrong e-mail client for
everybody.