Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Peter A Forbes wrote in
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To those usenet people using Forte Agent as their news reader, or for
email, I wonder if you are aware of a really BAD feature....

Interesting up to a point, but why do anything relating deleting of
files in the newsreader? surely it would have been better to do the
mod's or deletions outside of the programme anyway?



I think it's bad programming. Regardless of where the deletion is done, no
program whose purpose is passing copies of files in a system it knows
nothing about should EVER default to a write or delete capability. These
things should only be possible with a prompt answered manually by the user.
If an override exists, it should require that the user makes some effort to
find it to enable it. In this case the correct practise would be to
defauklt to deleting a LINK to the attached file, NOT the file itself. No
exceptions. If I'm testing a new program and find it presuming to police
any part of the system beyond its own function and place, it's out on its
ear, immediately. I'd rather find something else than deal with something
made by someone who fails to respect unknown host systems.

Thanks for volunteering this response; I had considered doing it but decided
the S/N ratio would benefit from my restraint. Consider forwarding this
post to the authors. I still use NS7's reader and wish it did a few things
differently but alas the simplicity and integration win for me in the end.

Regards,

Michael