Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:41:01 +1100, Mad Hamish
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:

On 16 Jan 2025 10:55:17 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
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On 15 Jan 2025 at 03:14:28 GMT, "Mad Hamish"
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:27:52 -0800, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
 

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:07:41 -0000 (UTC), Bice Eichler
<eichler2@comcast.net> 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.

 
Have you tried asking in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent ?
 
It has been very helpful to me and to others, and has dealt with the
key problem in the past.
 
Whether Forte is dead or not is an open question, apparently.

 
Their website has disappeared along with their commercial  newsserver
service so it looks like it

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Very much still live -
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https://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php
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Huh, that's just come back in the last week or so
(and the buy and upgrade pages aren't available)
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and their newsserver is back online

Nonetheless, progress appears to be being made.

And the buy and upgrade pages available -- that is, they come up, they
have a title, we do not see a 503 error -- they just don't have
anything but a referral to Support. They are a work in progress.

The three Tech Support links on Agent Newsreader Support, OTOH, /do/
show the forms. Whether anything would happen if they were to be used
is, of course, not known at this point.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"