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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 18:07:35 +0100
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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?

-- 
Jim the Geordie