Re: Newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search

On 2024-08-12, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:

I've been using Thunderbird since Google Groups shut down, but I mostly
enjoyed GG for the ability to quickly find messages by keywords.  I set
TB to keep all messages, but it's search has been horrible and can't
find hardly anything.  It also had a bug last week where it
re-downloaded all the messages and now everything older than a week just
comes up with an error.
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Now Thunderbird has just decided there's no messages in this group, when
I just downloaded the last 500 and started looking at them.
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One of the other I'm looking for is the ability to retain all messages
in a particular newsgroup,
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Also built in spellcheck. I remember I tried a couple other newsreaders
like x-news which is supposed to have a way to set up spellcheck but I
couldn't get working.
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I'm on PC, so running in Windows (10 right now) is a must.
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I don't care at all about binaries as I'm using eternal-september.  I
don't mind paying a little, and am considering Agent too.
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 Agent 8.0 has global search, a spell checker and supports news & snews.

You can find a registration key for it in a search on google groups.
Agent is now abandonware, so you can no longer buy a registration key.

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