On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:06:46 -0500, frank@thehowards.ca wrote:
>I know this is really off topic but I am wondering what software
>people use for this newsgroup.
>
>I use Forte Agent but really don't like the way it subjects of posts,
>at least as it appears when it comes back into Agent.
>
>1. If a message has an single attachment no text, Agent appends the
>file name to the subject.
>
>2. If there are more than one attachments, again with no text, it does
>not append file names.
>
>3. If there are more than one message with multiple attachments, with
>no text, the first message comes up and the following messages are
>threaded to it.
>
>4. If there is text as well as one attachment, the file name is
>appended to the subject and it comes up as two messages. (0/0)
>contains the text and (*/7) e.g. contains the attachment.
>
>5. If there is text plus multiple attachments, it works as per 4 but
>without appending the file names to the subject,
>
>Now I can see why Agent handles the subject name differently for
>single and multiple attachmens. I guess I just have to be less lazy
>and type something in. That would get rid of case 3.
>
>I do wonder, though, why the separation of text and attachments in
>cases 4 and 5 happens. Do any of you out there have a Newsgroup Reader
>that displays the text and attachment as a single message?
Forte Agent is my NNTP reader of choice and it is ok for ad hoc
posting of one or two posts. However, for posting numerous files, I
prefer to use the free Camel System powerpost. The current versions
will only post using yenc encoding, but there is a difficult to find
older version which will post using uuencode. Many readers of this
forum insist on using older newsreaders which cannot decode yenc and
or mult-part yenc binaries.
All that said, Joseph Testagrose uses Forte Agent and he diligently
writes out the subject line for each binary.
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