Re: does anyone even use usenet

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 8/13/2024 7:54 AM, Justisaur wrote:

On 8/13/2024 7:24 AM, Justisaur wrote:

On 8/12/2024 8:00 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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

 

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.

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I think one was Microplanet Gravity, and another Xananews.

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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.

 
So I found some posts elsewhere saying even Agent 8 was still way better
than Microplanet Gravity.  I started looking into buying Agent, and
apparently they're defunct, some people saying it's not possible to
actually get/register a version of it as of May, no response from them. :(

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Looks like you can still register it if you already had a key.
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I apparently have it already installed, but I don't have a key (maybe I
do buried somewhere on an old backup, but not for the latest version.)
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Also found that there's an issue with it that it won't be able to handle
posts on or after 19 January 2038, so mark your calendars, 13.3... years
from now you'll need to get a different newsreader.
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So even if I were to go sailing for a key, it would stop working at that
point.  I don't know about some of you, but I might make it that long
and don't want to have to learn a new newsreader in 14 years. :)

Oh noes, it's Y2K all over again.

Frankly I think I'll be dead by then so no worries.

Xocyll