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Still possible to purchase a license for Agent 8?
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Lafe
Jun 23, 2023, 9:49:48 PM6/23/23
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Does anyone know if it's still possible to purchase Agent 8?
I've been using it for a bit now, and I feel like it's worth purchasing
the license. But attempting the order form on the website consistently
fails for me, and I've even sent an email to their "agent-order-inquiry"
address 10 days ago but received no response.
If anyone has any info, I'd be grateful.
I've been using it for a bit now, and I feel like it's worth purchasing
the license. But attempting the order form on the website consistently
fails for me, and I've even sent an email to their "agent-order-inquiry"
address 10 days ago but received no response.
If anyone has any info, I'd be grateful.
Arthur T.
Jun 24, 2023, 12:20:37 AM6/24/23
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In Message-ID:<4nic9i93hi8rnp8o8...@4ax.com>,
have attempted to contact Forte with no luck. When a company can't
even be bothered to take money from people....
I do not like to encourage software piracy. But this strongly appears
to be abandonware. If so, it seems that the only way to get full
function is to "borrow" someone else's license code.
You have tried to be honest and pay your money, but you failed.
BTW, there is a long-known bug that Forte never fixed. If you look in
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified for EXPIRY PROBLEM,
you'll find a user-created fix.
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
Lafe <la...@lafes.invalid> wrote:
>Does anyone know if it's still possible to purchase Agent 8?
>
>I've been using it for a bit now, and I feel like it's worth purchasing
>the license. But attempting the order form on the website consistently
>fails for me, and I've even sent an email to their "agent-order-inquiry"
>address 10 days ago but received no response.
If you look back in this newsgroup, you'll see that several people
>Does anyone know if it's still possible to purchase Agent 8?
>
>I've been using it for a bit now, and I feel like it's worth purchasing
>the license. But attempting the order form on the website consistently
>fails for me, and I've even sent an email to their "agent-order-inquiry"
>address 10 days ago but received no response.
have attempted to contact Forte with no luck. When a company can't
even be bothered to take money from people....
I do not like to encourage software piracy. But this strongly appears
to be abandonware. If so, it seems that the only way to get full
function is to "borrow" someone else's license code.
You have tried to be honest and pay your money, but you failed.
BTW, there is a long-known bug that Forte never fixed. If you look in
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified for EXPIRY PROBLEM,
you'll find a user-created fix.
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
Ca...@invalid.com
Jun 24, 2023, 8:03:52 AM6/24/23
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Ca...@invalid.com
Jun 24, 2023, 8:10:54 AM6/24/23
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https://web.archive.org/web/20040803130644/http://www.skuz.net/madhat/agent/util.html#935
Lafe
Jun 25, 2023, 1:24:14 AM6/25/23
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Ca...@invalid.com wrote in
news:89nd9i9a5rlbdrnpt...@4ax.com:
> <snip>
It does look like it's abandonware now. I appreciate the directions to
particular posts, but the filter fix won't help me if the software won't run,
and I haven't found registration codes readily available, and the various
cracks or keygens that are running about seem decidedly... untrustworthy.
Maybe at some point I'll take the effort of sandboxing one of them and seeing
if I can get anything useful out of it.
Unless I missed a broad hint? I did scour the provided sources as best I
could.
XNews is brilliant as well, it just doesn't handle modern character encodings
very well at all, and the UI is very dated at this point. Though I'm a big
fan of its filtering capabilities.
news:89nd9i9a5rlbdrnpt...@4ax.com:
> <snip>
>>>I do not like to encourage software piracy. But this strongly appears
>>>to be abandonware. If so, it seems that the only way to get full
>>>function is to "borrow" someone else's license code.
>>>
>>>You have tried to be honest and pay your money, but you failed.
>>>
>>>BTW, there is a long-known bug that Forte never fixed. If you look in
>>>alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified for EXPIRY PROBLEM,
>>>you'll find a user-created fix.
>>
>>You are looking for the date 1/1/22 by a poster named Cronus
>
> I guess I should have included this -
> https://web.archive.org/web/20040803130644/http://www.skuz.net/madhat/age
> nt/util.html#935
Thanks for feedback from both of you, I really appreciate it.
>>>to be abandonware. If so, it seems that the only way to get full
>>>function is to "borrow" someone else's license code.
>>>
>>>You have tried to be honest and pay your money, but you failed.
>>>
>>>BTW, there is a long-known bug that Forte never fixed. If you look in
>>>alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified for EXPIRY PROBLEM,
>>>you'll find a user-created fix.
>>
>>You are looking for the date 1/1/22 by a poster named Cronus
>
> I guess I should have included this -
> https://web.archive.org/web/20040803130644/http://www.skuz.net/madhat/age
> nt/util.html#935
It does look like it's abandonware now. I appreciate the directions to
particular posts, but the filter fix won't help me if the software won't run,
and I haven't found registration codes readily available, and the various
cracks or keygens that are running about seem decidedly... untrustworthy.
Maybe at some point I'll take the effort of sandboxing one of them and seeing
if I can get anything useful out of it.
Unless I missed a broad hint? I did scour the provided sources as best I
could.
XNews is brilliant as well, it just doesn't handle modern character encodings
very well at all, and the UI is very dated at this point. Though I'm a big
fan of its filtering capabilities.
pyotr filipivich
Jun 25, 2023, 6:50:53 PM6/25/23
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlf...@ix.netcom.com> on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 13:41:22
-0400 typed in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent the following:
>On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:24:12 -0000 (UTC), Lafe <la...@lafes.invalid>
>declaimed the following:
>ForteInc, you'll find it is a residential home with what looks like a
>two-car garage.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised to find that the owner died of old age, and the
>web-site is just operating on some long-term funding...
"there are vays of finding things out."
--
pyotr filipivich
This Week's Panel: Us & Them - Eliminating Them.
Next Month's Panel: Having eliminated the old Them(tm)
Selecting who insufficiently Woke(tm) as to serve as the new Them(tm)
-0400 typed in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent the following:
>On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:24:12 -0000 (UTC), Lafe <la...@lafes.invalid>
>declaimed the following:
>
>>It does look like it's abandonware now. I appreciate the directions to
>
> If you use Google Maps (street view) for the nominal address of
>>It does look like it's abandonware now. I appreciate the directions to
>
>ForteInc, you'll find it is a residential home with what looks like a
>two-car garage.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised to find that the owner died of old age, and the
>web-site is just operating on some long-term funding...
"there are vays of finding things out."
--
pyotr filipivich
This Week's Panel: Us & Them - Eliminating Them.
Next Month's Panel: Having eliminated the old Them(tm)
Selecting who insufficiently Woke(tm) as to serve as the new Them(tm)
Scott
Jun 26, 2023, 11:33:20 AM6/26/23
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:24:12 -0000 (UTC), Lafe <la...@lafes.invalid>
wrote:
added the registration code, which I found using assistance from this
group. It should at least be possible to run the software.
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