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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 8/13/2024 7:54 AM, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 8/13/2024 7:24 AM, Justisaur wrote:
>>> On 8/12/2024 8:00 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:29:14 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/11/2024 7:07 PM, Mike S. wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:43:58 -0400, Danoxary <dbz.1991@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I have no real idea what the modern versions of Agent are like. I've
>>>> tried their newer editions, but I just /really/ like the no-nonsense
>>>> GUI of the older versions. All the toolbars and buttons are very slim,
>>>> with very little wasted whitespace. This puts the focus on the actual
>>>> content. From what I can tell, a lot of the improvements made to Agent
>>>> over the years has been to binary support, which isn't something I'm
>>>> really interested in. Certainly not enough to pay for an upgrade.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think one was Microplanet Gravity, and another Xananews.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried Microplanet Gravity... it's fine. It's -from what I
>>>> remember- a fairly good clone of Forte Agent. It didn't really offer
>>>> me anything more than what I already had, though, so I stuck with my
>>>> ancient client.
>> 
>> So I found some posts elsewhere saying even Agent 8 was still way better 
>> than Microplanet Gravity.  I started looking into buying Agent, and 
>> apparently they're defunct, some people saying it's not possible to 
>> actually get/register a version of it as of May, no response from them. :(
>
>Looks like you can still register it if you already had a key.
>
>I apparently have it already installed, but I don't have a key (maybe I 
>do buried somewhere on an old backup, but not for the latest version.)
>
>Also found that there's an issue with it that it won't be able to handle 
>posts on or after 19 January 2038, so mark your calendars, 13.3... years 
>from now you'll need to get a different newsreader.
>
>So even if I were to go sailing for a key, it would stop working at that 
>point.  I don't know about some of you, but I might make it that long 
>and don't want to have to learn a new newsreader in 14 years. :)


Oh noes, it's Y2K all over again.

Frankly I think I'll be dead by then so no worries.

Xocyll