I am trying thunderbird now but it's so different from Agent that it's apples and oranges.
I'm going to try some free trial period on another news server using Agent and see how that works.

Here's one example of a free newsgroup provider no binary
freenews.netfront.net
Perhaps better than the bother of registering for free trials ..
I've been using it for several years, since my ISP dropped usenet.
John T.


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