As with Free Agent, there are so many options and features in this newsreader that new users may get lost. Standard features include offline/online newsreading, multithreading, thread watching, thread ignoring, mark for later retrieval, database compression and purging, quick find, send mail, word wrap, automatic 'catch up', customizable font colors and screen sizes, and a whole lot more. This, however, is the point where the similarities between the two products end and the real fun for power users begins.
Perhaps Agent's strongest feature is the implementation of a multilingual spelling checker -- for many news junkies (like myself) this alone is reason enough to fork over the $29 registration fee. An American English dictionary comes preloaded with Agent; International English, Italian, Spanish, German, and French dictionaries are also freely available from the Forte FTP site.
