FreeAgent is your access to news, fun and information in the Usenet newsgroups. Free Agent is offered as freeware, and is available in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions.
ONLINE/OFFLINE OPERATION
You can configure Free Agent for online or offline operation to set your own balance between convenience and economy. In offline mode, it briefly connects to the server to retrieve articles and headers, then lets you browse them offline and mark the interesting ones; and then goes online for another quick session to retrieve the marked articles. In online mode, you can browse newsgroups at will, dipping into threads as they interest you. You can still mark long articles to be downloaded later, or you can download one article while browsing others.
MULTITASKING
Free Agent does internal multitasking, allowing you to do many online tasks at once. For example, you can browse articles in one newsgroup while retrieving headers for another, or downloading articles while continuing to browse.
IMAGES and BINARY ATTACHMENTS
You can post and receive articles with binary attachments with automatic splitting and combining to span multiple messages. If the attachment is viewable (like an image or a sound) you can view it from within the newsreader. The world of alt.binaries.pictures is yours to command!
EASY BROWSING
Free Agent makes it easy for you to quickly sample threads and newsgroups. You don't have to subscribe to a newsgroup to see what's happening if you're wondering what alt.usenet.kooks is all about, you can dip into it and get only the most recent articles. You can then subscribe to it, get more articles, or just decide they're a bunch of kooks and move on.
