Micky wrote:

I don't know about you guys, but for Usenet, I'm using Forte Agent
V.1.93, whose latest copyright date is 2002.

and did it show the thorn character with bar Ꝥ?

I considered switching to latest Agent (I stopped using it with v1.x)
and downloaded the latest 30 day trial, oh my god it looks ghastly
running on a modern windows, cosmetically it seems identical to when it
was on Win95