Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:09:24 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 1/13/25 10:07, Bice Eichler wrote:

Sadly, after using Forte Free Agent for decades, the software has stopped
working on my Windows 10 computer.  I installed a bluetooth driver for
some new speakers I had bought, and that somehow killed Agent.  I tried
reinstalling it and even getting the latest version I could find online
(ver. 8) and it still won't install or run.
 
So I guess I have to find new client software.  I've spent most of this
morning trying out a few (Mozilla Thunderbird, Pan, XPN) didn't like any
of them for one reason or another. Pan probably came the closest to being
acceptable, but it's missing one key feature that I'd like to have.
 

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Have you tried Thunderbird, BetterBird or Sea Monkey?
Thunderbird is my daily email and Usenet client. I have used
BetterBird and it is pretty good.

I tried Thunderbird - I got the impression it was designed for email
and newsgroups were an afterthought.  Took me forever to figure out
how to even see newsgroups in it, and I didn't like the interface
much.

Somehow I got Agent ver. 8 installed.  I'm not sure why it worked when
it hadn't worked multiple times earlier.  I'm worried because it's a
30 day trial version and I don't know where I'm going to get a
Registration Key when that 30 days runs out.  Forte went out of
business long ago, didn't they?

This version doesn't have the "Expand all threads" option under the
View menu.  I can't believe they got rid of that.

  -- Bob