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From: VanguardLH on 1 Aug 2010 19:03
Mike Easter wrote:

> First, you said and I misunderstood 'Don't use Forte Agent' - then later
> that was straightened out.

As updated later, that was meant to say "*I* don't use Forte Free Agent"
to preface that I was guessing unsubscribing (or deleting) the newsgroup
in Forte Agent would wipe out its message store and that you resubscribe
to the same group to start over again (and have to download all the
headers again). Looks like Doe confirmed my guess.

> I'm pretty sure that JD knows that there is a free Agent, but I think
> that he was mostly trying to say that its own designated group was a
> better place to discuss it; and (I believe) he thinks that many of the
> participants in news.software.readers are too biased toward other
> readers to be helpful about Agent, as they also are about (not) being
> helpful about OE.

It was the "less popular than Agent" comment in Doe's response that
seemed to insinuate a condemnation of newsreaders other than Forte
Agent. That's like saying the microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
newsgroup is for OE and news.software.readers are "for less capable than
OE" clients. Having its own separate newsgroup does not itself qualify
that OE is best, anymore than Forte Agent having its own group relegates
n.s.r for discussing only "less popular" clients.

n.s.r and a.u.o.f are *both* places to ask for help with Forte Agent.

>> My apologies since I don't often deal with users that chose to dole out
>> money for a newsreader when there are free programs available for the
>> same functions.
>
> Oh, good grief. Surely you accept that the Agent 5 is a better agent
> than the last Free Agent. Maybe not your personal choice, but an
> improvement.

I did not claim v5 of their payware wasn't better than v4.2 or v3.3 or
their payware was not better than their long discontinued free version.
I qualified *why* I made the assumption that the OP was using a free
version (only 8.9% of Usenet posts are made by Forte Agent and a small
percent of those are still using the free version).
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