On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:26:02 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote in
<07a9s2hv56389nsb1m0gha7qfi10nqqpah@4ax.com>:

>On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:04:20 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless , John
>Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>>My bugs still exist as of the last time I tested.
>
>If you can identify them, I might be able to test again.

I doubt you'll want to go through the trouble -- the most critical bug
for me only arises when Agent is accessing synchronized Briefcase or
Offline Files (resulting in destruction of the files). I asked several
times for a fix but never got any sign of interest in the issue, which
is part of what's turned me off on Agent upgrades.

>>Likewise the sluggish performance.
>
>YMMV. I use Agent 3.3 and its far from sluggish. Considerably more
>nippy than the other newsreaders I tried, in point offact. Maybe it
>was a h/w issue.

Agent v1 is resource lean and lightning fast by comparison with later
versions. If, for example, a system is loaded with heavy multitasking
and disk I/O, v1 performance will be acceptable, whereas the performance
of later versions is too painful to be usable. That's not something I'd
give up, especially given the showstopper bug (above), unless I got
something important to me in return, and there's nothing in later
versions that's terribly important to me.

>>The point is that framing in <>, while a good idea in general, is not
>>any sort of assurance that bad wrapping won't occur.
>
>Sure. but Jeff's point is that it _does_ remove instances of bad
>wrapping the readers he tried.

Jeff actually made an _unqualified_ statement. My point is that framing
in <> only helps in some newsreaders, making it a bit self-centered to
insist that it be done for one's own benefit. Why shouldn't Jeff
instead get a newsreader smart enough to avoid wrapping long URLs that
aren't framed in <>? It's not terribly hard to do from a design
standpoint -- Agent v1 is already smart enough to properly parse URLs
without <> framing, and it almost certainly would be simple to fix the
wrapping issue without requiring <> framing.

>>I've got a lean mean stable release with very few bugs. Tell me again
>>why I should upgrade? ;)
>
>V3 had enough new features, and no bugs that affected me, to make it
>worthwhile. YMMV of course.

YMMV indeed -- the new features in v3 aren't terribly important to me,
especially as compared to what I'd have to give up to get them.

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