Free Agent -- A newcomer to the newsreader business, Forte's Free Agent has the most features (with the exclusion of its big sister, Agent) and is easily the most configurable. In fact, there are so many options in this newsreader that novice users may get lost. For the complete freeware newsreader, there is no need to look further than Free Agent. Configurable options include offline/online newsreading, font colors, screen size, multithreading, thread watching, thread ignoring, mark for later retrieval, and many, many more. One of its best features is the ability to extract information from another newsreader during setup so that the user doesn't have to input the same information over and over and ...

Some additional features include the ability to switch between screens effortlessly, quick find, send mail, word wrap, quick purging, and automatic 'catching up'. With the introduction of Free Agent v1.0, several new essential features have been added, including improvements in overall speed, database compression, and database purging. This version is free for academic, non-profit, and similar non-commercial uses -- for commercial users (and power users), Agent is available with full support and additional features.

Pros: Tons of features, easy customization, extensive on-line help available
Cons: Lacks some of the better features found in Agent
New: 32-bit version, progress indicator, installation program, 32,000 newsgroup limit removed, bug fixes, more

Version Reviewed: 1.11 Date of Review: 4/26/97

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