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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Mail serve
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:22:13 -0400
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:49:56 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

>On 21 Apr 2025 14:46:57 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
>
>>I use the News.individual.net (check link as it’s from memory) aka the
>>German server which is £10 a year and is fast and reliable which seems
>>worth not having to deal with the glitches etc for the free stuff.
>>
>>Roger Merriman
>
>Agreed.  I've been using individual.net for the last year:
><https://news.individual.net>
><https://news.individual.net/overview.php>
>It's been quite reliable with only a few short outages.  The price is
>right at 10 Euros/year.  One feature I really like is when I post a
>message to a newsgroup, and then poll the server for new messages, my
>message appears almost instantly.  That verifies that my message
>actually arrived at the server.  This is in contrast to my previous
>nightmare service, where my messages might appear up to an hour later,
>or sometimes disappear for no obvious reason.
>
>For a news reader, I've been using Forte Agent since the 1990's:
><https://www.forteinc.com>
><https://www.forteinc.com/agent/support.php>
>Forte Agent is a fairly old news reader which has changed owners
>several times over the years.  Development stopped in approximately
>2014.  The company still accepts registration payments indicating that
>they might still be alive.
>
>There are some good alternatives that run on Linux, but nothing I
>would recommend for Windows, except maybe Thunderbird, which I haven't
>used for a long time.

I dowloaded and tried Thunderbird for my wife's e-mail on her Windows
machine. I quickly shitcanned it got her "Outlook." She has Outlook
now on her Ipad. I gave Thunderbird a test run for Usenet. Nope... not
a chance. I'm sticcking with Forte Agent.

--
C'est bon
Soloman