Maybe working?

I've been using Agent since about 1995. Beta versions for quite some time, then

When I signed up for internet, around 93 or 95, the isp sent me a CD with the free versions Eudora and Agent on it. Been using one version or another ever since. Agent was version 0.99 at the start.

micky wrote on 3/9/2024 9:50 PM:

Do you still have your Betamax/VHS?

I think I started with V1.0 when it was already obsolete and it was still better than anything else I tried

I started at 0.99 or earlier, then decided it was worth paying for, even before the 1.0 release. I guess that dates me on usenet somewhat. I'm still a paid user up to the latest version, 8, IIRC. Sadly, they don't have a version for Mac or Linux and I ceased using Windows some time ago. I used to used Agent for backing up and archiving all my mail - 20+ years of it. Still have it all on my last remaining Windows computer.

What I liked about Agent was that it worked in a logical manner, at least according to my way of thinking. I doubt I did more than scratch at the surface of the feature list. I would still be using Agent were there a Mac or Linux version available.

Betamax LOL. Haven't heard that in a while. I'm getting 15 ATSC 3.0 broadcast channels here, five of them are DRM encrypted. The days of recording from the tv are nearing the end.

Never had Betamax but for sure I have my VHS player, with an A-B switch on the shelf next to my bed to choose between it and the DVD-R/tv tuner. Then the feed goes to every tv in the house, the bedroom, office, the bathroom with the bathtub, the living room, kitchen, basement 'club' room, laundry room/shop, and attic (though I've never watched tv in the attic iirc, but once I would have if it had been set up by then). So I can play something and not be tied to one room. Plus since the mechanical parts in vcrs wear out, I have a couple spare vcrs people were giving away when people were using videotapes less to use when the current one breaks. (Of course they are getting old even when not being used, so I don't know what will happen in the long run.)

Real vi is too primitive for me. The improved version most definitely is improved.

I do have slrn on my Fedora box but I like the creature comforts of Pan.

These days you have to grab them by the pussy to make sure it really is a pussy. One doesn't want any 'The Crying Game' style surprises.