[OT] Agent 6
Robin Bignall
choose to show the first n lines and the last m lines (or all of
them), at one's choice. No more paging down to the end of
multi-screen posts.
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Robin
(BrE)
Herts, England
R H Draney
>
>Agent 6 has a new feature that suppresses quoted text, allowing one to
>choose to show the first n lines and the last m lines (or all of
>them), at one's choice. No more paging down to the end of
>multi-screen posts.
I do hope they didn't set "hide quoted text" as the default, as Googly Groups
did....r
--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
Robin Bignall
wrote:
>Robin Bignall filted:
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>>Agent 6 has a new feature that suppresses quoted text, allowing one to
>>choose to show the first n lines and the last m lines (or all of
>>them), at one's choice. No more paging down to the end of
>>multi-screen posts.
>
>I do hope they didn't set "hide quoted text" as the default, as Googly Groups
>did....r
It's linked to a toggle, the "q" key. Very useful. I'm tinkering
with values of n and m to find the most beneficial.
Chuck Riggs
How difficult is the mother to set up and use?
Even the ancient version of Agent I'm using, ver 1.91, has several
dozen too many features, IMO, that only get in the way. With the
feature explosion most software products experience, my guess is I
wouldn't be happy with Agent 6.
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Regards,
Chuck Riggs,
An American who lives near Dublin, Ireland and usually spells in BrE
Bertel Lund Hansen
> Even the ancient version of Agent I'm using, ver 1.91, has several
> dozen too many features, IMO, that only get in the way. With the
> feature explosion most software products experience, my guess is I
> wouldn't be happy with Agent 6.
I am running version 1.93. I have tried 2, 3 and 4. Version 4 is
much more complicated than 1.9, and you need to change a lot of
routines and search for paths to functions that have been moved.
Don't bother.
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Bertel, Denmark
Robin Bignall
wrote:
I don't use many of the features Agent introduced since version 1.9x,
as I have only one persona that I use across all newsgroups, but I do
use two servers, nested folders are useful, and "ignore subthread" is
vital to get rid of all conversations involving P Daniels. I imagine
upgrading is fairly seamless; I always found it so.
I try to keep all of my software at the latest level, but Agent is one
of the few products you don't need to unless you want the new
features. The Usenet Agent group provides help on all versions.
Steve Hayes
I'm using 2.x of Free Agent.
I wanted to register it because I used it a lot, but found I could only
register the latest version, which had e-mail, which I didn't want, and
"desks", which I didn't understand, and F no longer worked for follow-up.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Bertel Lund Hansen
> I'm using 2.x of Free Agent.
> I wanted to register it because I used it a lot, but found I could only
> register the latest version, which had e-mail, which I didn't want,
Agent has e-mail in all versions.
> and "desks", which I didn't understand, and F no longer worked for follow-up.
Two reasons why I don't want to upgrade. It's annoying that one
cannot register previous versions. But I registered version 1
while it was current.
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Bertel, Denmark
Chuck Riggs
<docr...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Based on what you and Bertel said, I don't think I'll bother with the
upgrade. I'm happy enough with Agent, ver 1.91. Thank you both for
your comments.
Until the Vista version of Windows arrived, I generally upgraded my
software to the latest version, too, but from what I've seen or read
about Vista and Windows 7, I'll stick with good old XP.