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Forte Agent 3.0

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Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.00 to buy
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
Date added: August 24, 2005
Total Downloads: 34,667
Downloads last week: 105
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Agent 3.0 is the top-rated Usenet newsreader on the Internet. Agent is also an excellent POP email client. This high level of integration between Usenet news and POP email separates Agent from all other communication products. Whether you are downloading binaries or responding to email, Agent provides you with all the right features. Agent is also the most mature newsreader on the market. Since the introduction of Agent .99 in 1994, Agent has always maintained the highest possible ratings from the most trusted sites for Internet software.

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Version: Forte Agent 3.0

"Not ready for prime time yet!"

by diogenes10 on September 27, 2005

Cons: While all Agent versions up to version 2 were the 'holy grail' of newsreaders, version 3 which actually was launched about 2 months ago was full of bugs so they had to hurriedly come up with a fix which is dubbed Agent version 3.1.
Still buggy: It is not backward compatible with the database built by agent version 2. Version 3 actually DESTROYED my database file / news collection that was built during 8 months!
If you insist on having it, better 'clean' install it to a new location, and then send an e-mail to tech support and ask how to import (or even to Export) the "newsrc" from the previous Agent version: the File|newsrc option is nowhere to be found!

The least of the current bugs is the inability to print Help topics: the Print function is there, but you may 'click' on it till the end of time without getting the printout!

Their tech support is impolite and inadequate too!!!

I switched back to version 2 and all's humming flawlessly!

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