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From: Derryck Croker on 27 Jan 2010 10:54
On 2010-01-27 01:21:56 +0000, David Rogoff said:

> I can't figure out how to save articles I don't want deleted. I'm also
> not sure how to mark a thread that I'm interested in so that all
> articles in the thread are highlighted/saved and that future articles
> are automatically downloaded and saved.
>
> Can the program do this? Seems like pretty essential features for a
> newsreader.

You can select a message or a thread and then go to File/Download To...
to do just that, so it would be an extention of that to set up a rule
or rules to do that automatically.

> One more: can Spotlght search Unison articles? I'd think that would be
> a good thing for an OS/X app.

No. Not until you've actually downloaded the message as above.

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Derryck

From: gtr on 27 Jan 2010 11:01
On 2010-01-27 01:21:56 +0000, David Rogoff said:

> I can't figure out how to save articles I don't want deleted. I'm also
> not sure how to mark a thread that I'm interested in so that all
> articles in the thread are highlighted/saved and that future articles
> are automatically downloaded and saved.
>
> Can the program do this? Seems like pretty essential features for a
> newsreader.

I don't think of a program that accesses usenet to read articles as an
offline database for those articles. If there is something that I want
to keep, not just with Unison, but with [unnamed newsreader] that I
used before, I simply save the article.

At one time I saved it to a folder. Now I save it, into DevonThink.
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From: David Rogoff on 27 Jan 2010 12:10
On 2010-01-27 08:01:16 -0800, gtr said:

> On 2010-01-27 01:21:56 +0000, David Rogoff said:
>
>> I can't figure out how to save articles I don't want deleted. I'm also
>> > not sure how to mark a thread that I'm interested in so that all >
>> articles in the thread are highlighted/saved and that future articles >
>> are automatically downloaded and saved.
>>
>> Can the program do this? Seems like pretty essential features for a >
>> newsreader.
>
> I don't think of a program that accesses usenet to read articles as an
> offline database for those articles.

I guess I'm used to online/offline newsreaders, like Forte Agent. It
does exactly this, which is great.


From: gtr on 28 Jan 2010 02:12
On 2010-01-27 09:10:55 -0800, David Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> said:

> On 2010-01-27 08:01:16 -0800, gtr said:
>
>> On 2010-01-27 01:21:56 +0000, David Rogoff said:
>>
>>> I can't figure out how to save articles I don't want deleted. I'm also
>>> > not sure how to mark a thread that I'm interested in so that all >
>>> articles in the thread are highlighted/saved and that future articles >
>>> are automatically downloaded and saved.
>>>
>>> Can the program do this? Seems like pretty essential features for a >
>>> newsreader.
>>
>> I don't think of a program that accesses usenet to read articles as an
>> offline database for those articles.
>
> I guess I'm used to online/offline newsreaders, like Forte Agent. It
> does exactly this, which is great.

Over the years, with changing applications and changing platforms, we
learn to kill all our expectations...
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Thank you and have a nice day.

From: Richard Wakeford on 30 Jan 2010 02:12
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:27:55 -0800, Joe Wangkauf wrote:

> He *could* probably still use Agent via Crossover... but of course I
> always dirty doing that.

I use Dialog on Crossover. I've tried several Mac newsreaders, Hogwasher
and Unison the most, but the decider for me, apart from having good
filtering and threading with Dialog, is hitting "Q" and collapsing quotes
which is so useful when there's a short response under a mass of quotes.
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