On 11/12/2023 4:50 PM, Joel wrote:
> Physfit Freak <
physfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> See his [DFS's], repeated, attacks on my use of Forte Agent, including when
>>> running under Wine and Linux, which involves nothing from M$. It's
>>> obvious he thinks that Wine is fraudulent, since it runs Agent so
>>> well.
>>
>> Have you tried 40tude? It was just like Forte Agent but with important
>> additions (multiple newsservers I think was one of them),
>
>
> Agent can do multiple servers easily, just create separate instances.
> .lnk files can "start in" a specific folder, where a unique Agent data
> set can be stored (I just have one set in the default folder, now on
> Wine that's just Data in Program Files (x86)\Agent\, in Winblows it's
> in the user folder under Agent's stuff).
>
>
>> and was free;
>> Forte wasn't.
>
>
> Agent 8 was released nine years ago, still current, still does
> everything the way I like it, including under Wine.
>
>
>> I don't know which one of the two it was that had one of the nicest
>> features. When you'd click on a Message ID, it would go back to the news
>> server (and not just making a general search in web) and download it for
>> you to see. Thunderbird doesn't have that and it cannot access messages
>> on the server that are marked as "read". The only way to access them is
>> to unsubscribe to the forum, then resubscribe and download the whole
>> damn posts that go far enough back to contain the single post that you
>> want! Then delete the rest.
>>
>> If Thunderbird can actually do that, I'm now aware how. There aren't
>> add-ons for it either.
>
>
> Thunderbird is crapware for Usenet, but useful for the few things
> Agent misses (much like IRCCloud, in a browser, in addition to a
> client native to the OS, or in my case a Winblows client, like Agent,
> running under Wine).
>
Can your Forte 8 retrieve a parent message from your news server even if
it was read before? What happens when you click on that Message ID?