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From: Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:55:57 +0100
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In article <li4k6jFhbm2U1@mid.individual.net>, invalid@invalid.invalid 
says...
> 
> 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. 

I did and I couldn't :(

-- 
Jim the Geordie