Liberty's Blog

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Forté has released the long awaited Agent Version 2.0 the popular Usenet newsreader. Many folks are disapointed that a fuller implimentation of the the promised feature set is not there. However it does include a few improvements. The menuing and feature selection is easier, one can pick and select features from a long list instead of going from dialog box to dialog box. Its now capable of sorting messages in any way imaginable. The program is pretty bugfree and reliable. Forté is offering 1.x upgrades for 15 dollars, but this price is going to go up to $19 with the next version upgrade, Upgrades from 2.0 will be free. Purchace price is $29 for new users. If one doesn't want to pay for a newsreader, the program will revert to Free Agent which is still a pretty good newsreader, but missing some of the power features, and the email handling.

I have been a beta tester for Agent for a while now and have used their news reader since Aug. 95 its always been a high quality piece of software, and it remains my most used piece of software that I own.