Path: ...!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 14:00:03 GMT Organization: S-LANG Read News Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net Ke4J3zIkLfpxFbzojC14AAKJOdI9WQJoNhLPhRlNSbSHGCE0QY Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lm4el3RlrtIoyEg5ne16aatqLj0= sha256:ZS/ztBKoQFQr0Pc6+DqsacgiP2vK8J0dC4pHdS/qXRk= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 2083 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.