Newsreaders

What's the best version of Agent to try? Xananews keeps crashing so I tried an unofficial
later version and it's worse (the nice hilighting features are all broken and it still
crashes).

I see the latest Agent is 4.x (and costs) and most folks here seem to be using 2.x.

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Paul.
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And a pushbike of some sort.
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I was 2 because I think it was the peak of Agent's Usenet
functionality before they got sidetracked with email, binaries, and
general bloatware.

Unfortunately, you can't download it from anywhere or buy a key.

 

My doesn't crash.

1.18.1.8

 

I'm looking for a new reader too. There's been a big increase in spam
recently and when I asken Zen if they could do anything about it they said:-

So I want a newsreader with decent spam filters.

 

Mine neither.

1.18.1.10

 

That was what I was using. Was taking an age to catch up even after I'd purged and stuff.
Removing and re-installing helps for a while. It crashed a lot.

That's what I'm using now. The ctrl-m thing stopped working or it would crash the
machine. Also, new replies etc aren't hilighted, so I have to manually got through the
threads.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

Ovejas y buitres:
http://obscuredomainname.org

 

Certainly can't download it, hence my requests here for an installer
when I rebuilt my machine a little while back.

Yes, I'm moving to Ginge's idea of running it from a USB key because
then I can stick it in any old machine.

 

What's it do better than 1.93, like wot I use?

If you've copied the whole installation, /data directory and all, it
won't prompt for a license key at all. I find that's the easiest way
to keep my memory stick copy up-to-date when I've been browsing at
work.

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Works for me.

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`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
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4.x is actually very difficult to use as a simple newsreader. I regret
buying it (well, a bit, it wasn't a lot of money, but I can't be arsed
using it).

I still have 2.0, but since I'm so used to having to use Google Groups
at work, I usually just stick with that at home too.

 

Do you have HTTP/HTTPS access at work? If so you could probably use the
Motzarella server with port 443, y'know.

 

That's the downloads bit covered.
http://mirrors.easynews.com/agent/ftp.forteinc.com/pub/agent/english/

 

Now that's very handy.

 

I was going to say I have an original exe for 1.93 but I see you've
found it already.
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Paul Carmichael wrote:

Zeinab Badawi. Although she's looking a bit Condi these days. What was the
question again?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Mmm... Yes.

Mind you, that Natasha Kaplinsky could have me if she played her cards
right.

 

As far as I can tell the latest version is 1.18.1.6, where did you get
..8 from?

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Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


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Have a Google - there's a blog with some unofficial releases out
there. .6 does indeed appear to be the latest official release.

 

I'm google-groups-institutionalised now.

 

cheers Timo, have updated to version .10

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Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
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BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11