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From: Keith <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search
Date: 14 Aug 2024 21:00:03 GMT
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On 2024-08-14, Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <li3rj3Fdo2hU1@mid.individual.net>, invalid@invalid.invalid 
> says...
>> 
>> On 2024-08-12, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> 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.
>> 
>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20211204062601/https://www.forteinc.com/agent/trial.php>
>
> 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.