Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Keith Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: Re: Newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search Date: 14 Aug 2024 21:00:03 GMT Organization: S-LANG Read News Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net TsseLTR1cgi7gLgJ97EUxwUg1F0r4dOYUrKWy+8ljpH17e3NGc Cancel-Lock: sha1:xTaOoBmPmAtA7NyJuBa2Oio6d0k= sha256:bKIhWHbXnm/tKBY7a+6Jh9bBJk2AK5sem2e7ZGiey4Q= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 2594 On 2024-08-14, Jim the Geordie wrote: > In article , invalid@invalid.invalid > says... >> >> On 2024-08-12, Justisaur 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. >> > >> > Now Thunderbird has just decided there's no messages in this group, when >> > I just downloaded the last 500 and started looking at them. >> > >> > One of the other I'm looking for is the ability to retain all messages >> > in a particular newsgroup, >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > I'm on PC, so running in Windows (10 right now) is a must. >> > >> > 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. >> > >> >> 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. >> >> > > I often fancied Agent but never got round to it. Since it's abandonware > can anyone post the password/code here? > You can do a google groups search to find it.