THanks Spike. It was a bit hard to follow and whatever the problem
is, it doesn't make any obvious sense what Agent is doing, so wherever
the defect is, it's not likely to ever be fixed. Maybe a cop out, but
life is full of such issues. At least we don't live in Allepo... :(
The complications of what you described, btw, is the reason why I
hated version 8, which has all the same legacy defects in the code,
and now want to do more labor saving trick to "help" users, which for
me was a nightmare of problems and failed downloads because there were
always little problems, and version 8 prevents users from being able
to handle problems without major major effort. It's why I don't trust
letting Agent purge things, and why I prefer the miserable solution of
getting every single one of the available headers and doing everything
by hand.
FYI, yes, I do get most everything I try to get, even from 2009, even
from 2008! Agent's newsserver must be better than most. There will
be some things that fail when I try to retrieve things near the oldest
of the headers, but most of the headers that are no longer on the
server look to me like something proprietary, that someone must have
made Agent remove, just my guess. Or perhaps the poster cancelled the
post??
Also, about the "+" and the threaded sort feature, it does work fine
for me also, mostly. It can be a very handy feature, especially with
emails. But it has limitations, like folks who use the same subject
line over and over for unrelated messages, but that's not Agent's
fault. Who knows where the defect is, it not necessarily in that part
of the code, and the whole business is very interwoven and complex,
and huge, so while it disappointed me that their stock answer was that
it would never be fixed, as a programmer, I can understand the
difficulty. It probably somebody else's code from ages ago and nobody
fully understands what much of the code is doing...
Agent needs to make money to stay in business, so keeps making new
versions with new features that mostly work for folks who don't know
any better, and life goes on. It is much the same with Microsoft
Windows, a horror-show of legacy code that everything else is built on
top of, and as much as I don't like it, I still use it more than
anything else... I still dream of getting my Linux situation in
order, but that's in the future, if I'm lucky. I do use Cygwin alot,
to give me handy unix tools to manage my Windows machine. The DOS
command-box windows are still just as clunky and near worthless as
they were 30 years ago, and this powershell thing they now have is
trivially better, but still worthless compared to the ease of unix,
which is what should be the free operating system of everyone...
But money drives all things, and so it goes.
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