Forté Agent

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Forté Agent
Developer(s) Forté Internet Software
Initial release 1994; 19 years ago (1994)
Stable release 7.00.32.1200 (May 25, 2012; 11 months ago (2012-05-25)) [±]
Preview release Non [±]
Operating system Windows
Type News client
License Proprietary commercial software
Website Forté Internet Software

Forté Agent is an email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Forté Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsreader which capitalized on the emerging Windows GUI framework. By 1995, Agent had expanded to become a full-featured email client and remains a widely-used application for integrating news and email communication on Windows.

Agent's Usenet features include access to multiple news servers, import/export of NZB files, threaded discussions and a highly configurable user interface[1] which has been criticized as difficult to use.[2] It has long supported yEnc as well as many other coding schemes, and has the capability of joining incomplete binary attachments, which is useful in the event of posting errors.

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  1. ^ "Forte Agent Newsreader". Newsgroup Reviews. NewsgroupReviews.com. Retrieved 22 January 2012. 
  2. ^ Jacobi, Jon L. "First Look: Forte's Overly Complex Newsgroup Reader". PCWorld. PCWorld Communications, Inc. Retrieved 22 January 2012. 

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