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From: Nick Naym on 27 Mar 2010 16:01 In article 1jg0o0k.1kbffs0nk67asN%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink, Paul Fuchs at pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink wrote on 3/27/10 3:29 PM: > M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > >> In article <C7D3B691.561E6%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, >> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >> >>> So, in what manner is Newswatcher "the only newsreader ... that can >>> compete with MacSOUP?" >> >> >> The keyboard shortcuts in MT-NW are much better and makes navigation >> easier and getting done quicker. >> >> Admitedly I am quite a newbie with MacSoup (I'm just trying it now) but >> an expert at MT. I find Macsoup to be less intuitive, and that's not >> saying much because MT has a pretty steep learning curve. >> >> Filtering is also better with MT. You can filter articles and assign a >> heirarchy to how high they they display in the message window. So when I >> am in a hurry, I open a group and just have to look at the colored >> articles that automatically come to the top. Then if I don't see >> anything interesting I hit one key and the grup is marked as read and >> the next grup window opens. >> >> OK, so MT does not display the tree. I can live without it although >> sometimes I do wish it were there. I get around it by choosing "Open all >> references". >> >> (I tried to post this from MacSoup but couldn't figure out how. There >> was no button or menu command to "Post". So I copied it back to MT to >> send.) > > You certainly are a newbie if you don't know how to post in it. > Special>connect to server, then check off any other stuff you want, and > return. Anything in the outgoing box will be automatically posted. > > I have been using MacSoup for about 13 years I think. Perhaps I can bother you for some tutorage? > I moved to a > Caribbean island where I had to dial into Florida to connect for 10 > cents a minute to the telephone company not including my ISP. As you > might imagine, it was either MacSoup or Alpo kibble for breakfast. LOL! Reminds me of the early days of AOL. > Still like it. Too old to change. Given the lack of newsreader app development, what alternative would you change to? > After the coming global financial > collapse, we will probably need off line readers again. LOL! > I also saved my > 300 baud modem in the closet. Now _that_ would require more than a financial collapse...something more like an Armageddon. -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.2)
From: M-M on 27 Mar 2010 16:27 In article <C7D3B691.561E6%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > So, in what manner is Newswatcher "the only newsreader ... that can > compete with MacSOUP?" The keyboard shortcuts in MT-NW are much better and makes navigation easier and getting done quicker. Admitedly I am quite a newbie with MacSoup (I'm just trying it now) but an expert at MT. I find Macsoup to be less intuitive, and that's not saying much because MT has a pretty steep learning curve. Filtering is also better with MT. You can filter articles and assign a heirarchy to how high they they display in the message window. So when I am in a hurry, I open a group and just have to look at the colored articles that automatically come to the top. Then if I don't see anything interesting I hit one key and the grup is marked as read and the next grup window opens. OK, so MT does not display the tree. I can live without it although sometimes I do wish it were there. I get around it by choosing "Open all references". (sorry if this is a double-post) -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com
From: erilar on 27 Mar 2010 16:38 A general reaction to the thread here: Given a fast connection, exactly what is the attraction of an off-line newsreader? You have all that stuff sitting on your computer, have to manually delete it, have to reconnect to reply to anything---these are advantages? I've been using incarnations of NewsWatcher for a good many years now, though I did have to use the Google abomination for a few days when my ISP dropped newsgroup access. When I found eternalseptember, I was happier than ever with MTNW 8-) -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Niels_J=F8rgen_Kruse?= on 27 Mar 2010 17:31 M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > In article <C7D3B691.561E6%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, > Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > So, in what manner is Newswatcher "the only newsreader ... that can > > compete with MacSOUP?" > > > The keyboard shortcuts in MT-NW are much better and makes navigation > easier and getting done quicker. Could you explain? -- Mvh./Regards, Niels J�rgen Kruse, Vanl�se, Denmark
From: Mike Rosenberg on 27 Mar 2010 19:01
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > Given a fast connection, exactly what is the attraction of an off-line > newsreader? You have all that stuff sitting on your computer, have to > manually delete it, have to reconnect to reply to anything---these are > advantages? As a longtime user of MacSOUP, I have to say that, for the most part these days, the online vs. offline aspect is irrelevant. I keep using MacSOUP because I'm quite used to it and would not dream of giving up the graphical tree display. That said, it's no different than using a mail client, such as Mail, Entourage or Thunderbird, to read email from a POP server. When reading mail from a POP server, as opposed to accessing it via webmail or using the client with an IMAP server, you're using an offline reader. BTW, I don't have to manually delete anything from MacSOUP, and with an always-on high speed connection, "reconnecting" to reply to something is trivial, no more complicated than replying to an email by whatever means. Also, reading just text groups, as I do, "all that stuff" sitting on my computer takes up almost no space, by which I mean less combined space than a single email with attachments can occupy. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> |