I, too, run Agent. I've not made the switch from v7.2 to the newest.
I was with Giganews, then I tried Agent's server and found it slower
and more prone to errors, so I went back to Giganews. I am
considering finding a news server in Europe as I have found
news-europe.giganews.com to be down at times.
One problem I've found with Giganews is their tech support sometimes
-assumes- you know as much as they do, and thus they are impatient or
won't explain things well. Luckily I've not needed their help.
D'Bear
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:16:29 -0600, Puffer Belly
<anonymous@anonymous.org> wrote:
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>Ditto for me. Agent's searching capability is rather slow, but when
>used with a NZB search website, Agent is very capable for binaries.
>(NZBClub is the best at finding all of those retained binaries going
>back 7 years.)
>
>For text newsgroups, I prefer Thunderbird.
>
>
>
>On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:48:52 -0600, ReichStuff
><BlackKnights67@gee_mail.com> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:26:46 -0500, Loboy48 <loboy1948@yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Have to switch to a new news hosting service. Would appreciate any
>>>recommendations - Thanks in advance!
>>
>>I have used Forte Agent as my newsreader for many, many years, and
>>love it. It costs $29 for the initial license and $19 for any major
>>revision. Along with Agent, I use Forte's Agent Usenet costing
>>$2.95/month for 25 GB. They claim longest retention among other things
>>-- 2,744 Days Binary Retention, 4,620 Days Text Retention, 99% +
>>Completion Rate, and 100,000 + Newsgroups. Also get free 256-bit SSL
>>encryption and they claim the most connections of any usenet provider.
>>I've been very pleased with both of Forte's products.
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