Let's move on

Ricky wrote in
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On Aug 19, 4:38*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Ricky wrote
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On Aug 14, 4:59*am, "Tim" wrote:
"Viperdoc" wrote

For the real pilots and students, I suggest joining Pilots of
America,
a
moderated group. It is what this NG used to be, before it was
ruined by Anthony and his likes.

It wasn't so much ruined by Mx as much as those who cannot take a
pass on endlessly arguing with him over some ridiculous detail, or
have made it their mission to expose him as a non-pilot, all with
the seemingly honora
ble
goal of protecting the helpless student who might read something
here and then die as a result.

What a crock. *Anyone with half a brain knows how to treat
information posted on a newsgroup, or anywhere else online for
that matter. *They d
on't
need help from a few crusaders.

After reading this, I totally agree, and I have been one of the
worst at engaging Anthony lately. What a waste of time I have
participated in!
I will not engage Anthony or Maxwell any longer. I do feel badly
for them, though, as they demonstrate very deeply troubled &
disturbed lives. I really do enjoy the aviation here and that's why
I lurk, post & respond, or at least it should be.

Anyone who leaves rec.aviation.piloting because of a few idiots is
participating in the crock you mentioned above. The idiots here
will not have that kind of power over me, and shouldn't over anyone
else. Yes, It's a shame that we have to wade through the mire of
MX, Maxwell & others, but that's what focus, willpower, and your
killfile are for.

I just purchased Agent so as soon as I figure out how to configure
this maddening newsreader I will have a killfile, too, as well as a
real newsreader.

You bought agent? It's for free all over the place!
Do yourself a favor and get X-news. It's like agent, but without the
problems.

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Do you mean that AGENT (specifically) is "free all over the place" or
do you mean free newsreaders?

I meant Free Agent, actually. Sorry it was just beyond me that someone
would pay for one!


I did recently look at many free and not-free newsreaders (X-News
among them) and looked at the interfaces (if examples were available),
read a little about them (including mostly user & former user
comments), and decided to go with what I had for many years which was
Free Agent. Well, I have Agent because Free Agent is no more but It's
basically the same interface with more features than Free Agent. I
really liked Agent and am used to it and they seemed to get the most
praise amongst what I read before plopping down my $20-something. X-
News did receive lots of good comments, too.

I'd be interested in what you say are Agent's problems since they give
a 30 day money-back test drive (which I'm on), understanding that I
rarely go far beyond reading, posting and replying to 3 Usenet groups
under 3 I.D.s


I've only used free agent myself, so when I mentioned problems, and they
were negligable IMO I meant those that fre agent had.
X-news is the best I've used and it was also free... Hard to imagine
something better for me.


Bertie