Ping Nick (Agent 6.0)
John Hatpin
reading the buzz in auo-rfa, which is very helpful, but I'm
particularly interested in your personal opinion.
Has anyone else here tried it yet?
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John Hatpin
http://uninformedcomment.wordpress.com/
Nick Spalding
on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:53 +0000:
> Nick: Version 6.0 of Agent - is it worth the upgrade from 5.0? I'm
> reading the buzz in auo-rfa, which is very helpful, but I'm
> particularly interested in your personal opinion.
I would find it difficult to recommend it. The extras are too little,
even for the small price. Suppress quoted text is nice, and nicely
implemented. The speed up from reading compressed headers is probably
some use to people pulling hundreds-of-parts binaries but doesn't make
any difference to me.
The good news is that this release uses exactly the same file formats as
the last one so you can make use of the 30-day free trial and revert to
5.0 if you don't think it worth it. You can be quite confident of this
as I have just tried 5.0 on a copy of this 6.0's database and it is
fine.
> Has anyone else here tried it yet?
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Nick Spalding
John Hatpin
Thanks, Nick, that pretty much answers my question. So far I'm
inclined to agree with those posters in the other group who are saying
it shouldn't have been a chargeable upgrade for the enhancements it
introduces.
M C Hamster
wrote:
>John Hatpin wrote, in <t9pfg5tguqu3pli0v...@4ax.com>
> on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:53 +0000:
>
>> Nick: Version 6.0 of Agent - is it worth the upgrade from 5.0? I'm
>> reading the buzz in auo-rfa, which is very helpful, but I'm
>> particularly interested in your personal opinion.
>
>I would find it difficult to recommend it. The extras are too little,
>even for the small price. Suppress quoted text is nice, and nicely
>implemented. The speed up from reading compressed headers is probably
>some use to people pulling hundreds-of-parts binaries but doesn't make
>any difference to me.
How about an upgrade from 4.0?
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M C Hamster "Big Wheel Keep on Turnin'" -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bill Kinkaid
<davo...@nospam.speakeasy.net> wrote:
I'm still using 3.3 and waiting for a good reason to upgrade from it.
And I didn't think it was much of an improvement over 2.0 or whatever
I had before. Can someone convince me?
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Bill in Vancouver
Bill Turlock
I finally got tired of NS 4.x inability to handle multi-part
binaries, so I tracked down 3.3/32.846 in Free Agent mode. I
still use NS for text, though, since I can sort messages by
column heading; not avail in Free.
Bob Ward
<RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>Nick: Version 6.0 of Agent - is it worth the upgrade from 5.0? I'm
>reading the buzz in auo-rfa, which is very helpful, but I'm
>particularly interested in your personal opinion.
>
>Has anyone else here tried it yet?
How much are they charging foe the 30 day daytrial?
John Hatpin
What's that got to do with anything? I'm considering paying for the
product anyway, if it's worth it, so it's not an issue of the cost of
a trial.
Why don't you go back and read Nick's answer? Concentrate real hard
on the second paragraph especially, and you'd know why I said "that
answers my question". I can't do that for you, any more than I can
fix your typing.
Bob Ward
<RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>Why don't you go back and read Nick's answer? Concentrate real hard
>on the second paragraph especially, and you'd know why I said "that
>answers my question". I can't do that for you, any more than I can
>fix your typing
My point is that trying it for yourself should reveal more about how
YOU like it, unless you are no longer capable of original thought.
I posted my reply without having read Nick's reply, so I had no idea
that he had saved you the trouble of determining how well it would
fill your needs.
If you don't care for my typing or my replies, I'm pretty sure the "n"
key, the space bar,or CTRL-K will take care of it for you.
The laser surgery to improve my eyesight is scheduled for Dec 4 - so
perhaps I can meet your high standards after that.