Richard Clark wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:29:31 GMT, "
wrote:


and after a while checked how much junk had unknowingly been
attached to it,
one of which
had slowed me down till it shut down completely!

I only have to look at your headers to see you use Outlook Express
which is a piece of trash. It has the worst reputation as being a
virus whore.

No, it's a TOXIC whore . . !

. . . This may not be a virus (as the ISP certifies it is
not) but rather a Phising link. No problem, my mail reader is not
going to run it, open it, or do anything without my permission. I
simply trash that stuff. Been doing that for 10 years with either
Eudora or Agent . . .

I've been running Eudora since Win 3.1.1 days, beautiful, just plain
clean, simple and to the point beautiful. Even though it doesn't have
many of the bells & whistles Outlook has. I don't need Microsloth's
autodialer, etc.

Since you're running Agent maybe you can answer a question Richard.
Backgrounder: 'Wayback I used Free Agent which worked like a champ. In
those days I accessed USENET via my ISP's paid subscription to some
second-tier USENET servers. My ISP is a litle dialup/DSL store-front
operation here in the neighborhood. Under circumstances and for reasons
long lost in my brainbone I've been accessing the newsgroups via Google
instead of his service for a number of years. Which is getting *really*
annoying. In the meanwhile my ISP dropped his old USENET subsciption by
virtue of non-use by his customers which leaves me dangling.

I'm very inclined to get back to using Agent even if I have to pay for
it (sob!). How, exactly Richard, do you access the USENET groups with
Agent?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

w3rv

On 9 Dec 2004 22:41:53 -0800, wrote:

I'm very inclined to get back to using Agent even if I have to pay for
it (sob!). How, exactly Richard, do you access the USENET groups with
Agent?

Hi Kelly,

The folks at Forte (agent) are also in the business of providing their
own premium news feeds over the net for as low as $3 a month that
would easily satisfy a text based interest. Visit:
http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

You could still, easily get by on their current FreeAgent. Very
robust and still cheap for the full featured version.

Access comes via Comcast. This means I have to come in through the
connection. I also have an ISP who provides me a Primary Shell for
one of my several Web sites, and I can get into their News Feed over
the net. My Primary Shell "can" cost as low as $7 a month if you pay
by credit card in 6 month blocks or you can get a modem connection for
$16 a month (in 6 month blocks), anyway visit:
http://www.eskimo.com/

I pay much more, of course because I'm on high speed (not to speak of
also having three web sites to support) - but then, its my work.

I'm not sure if that answers your question as to "how" I use it.
Their help function answers that, but if you have configuration
questions I can certainly help - I did that for Walt a couple years
back. He sometimes curses Agent, but he isn't plagued by virus.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC