Re: does anyone even use usenet

On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:29:14 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 8/11/2024 7:07 PM, Mike S. wrote:

On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:43:58 -0400, Danoxary <dbz.1991@aol.com> wrote:
 

What client are you guys using to write on here? What service?

 
Agent for text because its the best for that. My service is
Newsleecher and they have their own client for binaries.

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I've been considering purchasing Agent.  With the issues with TB I had
last week (it re-downloaded a bunch of messages, which now when I click
on it says don't exist)
>
I'm considering agent again.  Can you actually find things in it (TB is
horrible with search.  I was trying to find the thread with weird west
in it, but if I just put in weird for subject or body it doesn't find
any) and will it retain messages?

Agent 2.x (which is absolutely ancient) had a fairly robust search
engine.

(there was a mention of Weird West in the June 19th 'Prime Gaming'
thread, when it was one of the freebies. There were likely others, I
purge my feed of older posts fairly regularly so I don't have any
results for 'weird west' older than that).

I have no real idea what the modern versions of Agent are like. I've
tried their newer editions, but I just /really/ like the no-nonsense
GUI of the older versions. All the toolbars and buttons are very slim,
with very little wasted whitespace. This puts the focus on the actual
content. From what I can tell, a lot of the improvements made to Agent
over the years has been to binary support, which isn't something I'm
really interested in. Certainly not enough to pay for an upgrade.

I'd buy it, but wanted to make sure before I do.

I've been looking at the newsreaders listed on
alt.computers.software.newsreaders.  There's people saying a couple are
good I've never heard of.  However now I can't see them as Thunderbird
says there's no messages in the newsgroup :(
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I think one was Microplanet Gravity, and another Xananews.

I've tried Microplanet Gravity... it's fine. It's -from what I
remember- a fairly good clone of Forte Agent. It didn't really offer
me anything more than what I already had, though, so I stuck with my
ancient client.

I've tried Thunderbird as a client and... well, it works, but it felt
'messy' compared to Agent. It is like it sort of tries to force the
design philosophy of email onto Usenet, and that never felt right.
It's just something about how it displays everything I didn't like.
But it's been /years/ since that experiment, so maybe things have
changed.