Google| Subject | Re: Will Tony apologize? (was: Re: Colonial Photo & Hobby) |
| From | Sandman |
| Date | 04/30/2014 16:49 (04/30/2014 16:49) |
| Message-ID | <slrnlm23hp.hqu.mr@irc.sandman.net> |
| Client | |
| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | Tony Cooper |
| Followups | Eric Stevens (3d, 8h & 16m) > Sandman |
In article <f0u1m9lumh0464lrfpjpilaompficihag7@4ax.com>, Tony Cooper wrote:
Why not? What do I have to hide? Somehow you seem to think that I know nothing about Agent, and just dislike it out of the blue for no reason what so ever.Tony CooperEric StevensSandmanTony CooperEric Stevens
He's going to claim he has experience with it in some past life or something. You know he's not going to just admit he's ignorant.
But he doesn't have to, does he?
I've already said that I used Agent, what's to "admit"?
When, and for how long?
Somehow, I don't think you'll get an answer to that.
Things I dislike about Forte Agent:
* Filtering It can't filter messages in any useful way. I have tons of filters and scores set up to highlight threads I've participated in, highlight posts that are in direct reply to me, set colors on different groups of people (trolls etc).
Agent has a "filter" function, but can't filter on most of the headers in a posts, including the References header, which really sucks.
* Fonts Agent uses "variable-pitch" fonts for plain text messages, so you have to set a fixed width font for "variable-pitch messages" to make them appear correctly.
* Message list Agent display the author name in he subject column for follow-ups, even if the subject has changed, leaving the author field empty, but still obstructing the hierachy view if it grows longer to the right, forcing you to resize columns to see all posts.
* Threading By default, Agent threads by subject line instead of the RFC-compliant References header, confusing its user to think that a new thread has been created when the poster only changed the subject.
* No scoring A decent news client should have scoring, meaning that filters apply scores to a post, and under a certain threshold, the post will be highlighted or killed. So you can have a filter that if "Nikon" is mentioned, the score increases by 100, but if "Andreas Skitsnack" is the author, the score decreases by 200, which means that even if Andreas talks about Nikon, I won't be interested in what he has to say.
-- Sandman[.net]
04/14/2014-
