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[Zack Barresse]

Trying out Agent. Looks like a good candidate.

I tried that out, quite some years ago now (if it's the same as I remember), and I wasn't impressed; but that was about 6-7 years ago. Hopefully they have changed.

Look fwd to what comes of this study.

 

[zilpher]

I use ThunderBird http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ because its free and I made the swap at the same time as moving to FireFox.

I might try this Agent thing though...

 

[just_jon]

"One wonders how they grow to something like that..." (in free translation).

A brief digression: Years ago there was a girl, across the street and down one house, who I would see from time to time while home from college. She was always piling into or out of cars, heading this way and that.

As she grew up into college, I went off to work, and the sightings became less frequent.

Then she was chosen for a U.N. around-the-world tour, and wound up working with Mother Teresa for a while. Once back in the states, she kept care of her eldest brother as he died from cancer. Then it was off to law school ( honors ) and practice.

She's married now, and as stunning a looking woman as she is smart. Does a lot of pro bono work, when she can.

So, yeah, I *know* where women like that grow up. Right across the street from me. While I'm not looking.

 

[litrelord]

I like Xnews for reading/replying to newgroups. If you want to download binaries then, personally, I find newsrover the best. It's not free but it's good at automating everything for you.

Bear in mind that if you're subscribing to a lot of popular newsgroups then you'll need a fair amount of space to keep all the messages. I allow about 1-2GB and that's only for the message headers although that depends how long you leave the messages before deleting.

Nick

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

I use ThunderBird http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ because its free and I made the swap at the same time as moving to FireFox.

I might try this Agent thing though...

Switched to Thunderbird. It's a hassle-free newsreader.

Zilpher, Thanks for the tip...