Richard Clark wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:29:31 GMT, "
wrote:


and after a while checked how much junk had unknowingly been
attached to it,
one of which
had slowed me down till it shut down completely!

I only have to look at your headers to see you use Outlook Express
which is a piece of trash. It has the worst reputation as being a
virus whore.

No, it's a TOXIC whore . . !

. . . This may not be a virus (as the ISP certifies it is
not) but rather a Phising link. No problem, my mail reader is not
going to run it, open it, or do anything without my permission. I
simply trash that stuff. Been doing that for 10 years with either
Eudora or Agent . . .

I've been running Eudora since Win 3.1.1 days, beautiful, just plain
clean, simple and to the point beautiful. Even though it doesn't have
many of the bells & whistles Outlook has. I don't need Microsloth's
autodialer, etc.

Since you're running Agent maybe you can answer a question Richard.
Backgrounder: 'Wayback I used Free Agent which worked like a champ. In
those days I accessed USENET via my ISP's paid subscription to some
second-tier USENET servers. My ISP is a litle dialup/DSL store-front
operation here in the neighborhood. Under circumstances and for reasons
long lost in my brainbone I've been accessing the newsgroups via Google
instead of his service for a number of years. Which is getting *really*
annoying. In the meanwhile my ISP dropped his old USENET subsciption by
virtue of non-use by his customers which leaves me dangling.

I'm very inclined to get back to using Agent even if I have to pay for
it (sob!). How, exactly Richard, do you access the USENET groups with
Agent?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

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