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to: John Beamish
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-03-24 14:41:10
subject: Re: Pogue`s Petard

From: Robert Comer 

The biggest was multiple newsgroup support like you say, but I also needed
to automatically mark thread watched if I responded to a message in a
thread.  Windows Mail is totally broke on that issue. OE still does it
better as it only marks subthreads watched, but Agent is good enough.

--
Bob Comer



On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:46:50 -0400, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>I used to use it.  Moved on to Opera which has a built-in newsgroup reader
>which, despite its limitations, was "good enough".
>
>My big Agent complaint (long since resolved) was handling multiple
>newsgroups from multiple sources.  It required seting up one installation
>for each newsgroup source.  The one thing I really liked was the flagging
>of messages:  new, never read; new, read this 'pass', old, never read;
>old, already read.
>
>What were your configuration issues?
>
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:44:16 -0400, Robert Comer
> wrote:
>
>> It's an oldie but a goodie, it can finally be configured to my liking
>> -- Agent.
>>
--
Bob Comer 

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