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From: Mike Rosenberg on 10 Feb 2010 15:50 Kathy Morgan <kmorgan(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > > How far back do you go with [MacSOUP], Kathy? > > Also ages ago. I don't remember exactly, but probably about 1997. I > started with NewsWatcher, which was good, and sampled Netscape 2.x and > 3.x, but I really needed an offline newsreader. I think I started using it at about the same time. I got started on Usenet in 1994, and desperately needed an offline reader at the time. Not only was it a slow dialup connection - 2400 baud as I recall - I had a limit of 2 hours connection time per day. I may have even had just a single phone line at the time, I can't recall. I started with an app called NewsHopper: http://www.tidbits.com/iskm/iskm3html/pt4/ch22/ch22b.html#aa12 I kept using it for several years, but the author ceased development a few years later and I had to give up on the last version when it couldn't post followups under some circumstances. That's when I started using MacSOUP. NewHopper had one feature I really miss - its filter let you highlight tagged messages by color (see figure 22.19 in the above page). Stefan once told me he was eventually planning to do that for MacSOUP, but... I currently couldn't stand to lose MacSOUP's graphical thread display, though. > I no longer need the offline capability, but I still wouldn't trade for > something else. Ditto, although the offline capability does come in handy for me occasionally. There are occasions when I'll spend considerable time trying to come up with a solution to someone's problem, perhaps going through several reboots, and it's really easy to tag the post and go right back to it later. -- 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>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= on 11 Feb 2010 00:18
Kathy Morgan <kmorgan(a)spamcop.net> wrote: > MacSOUP I use MacSOUP too even though it does have its shortcomings. I think it should be fully rewritten in order to take full advantage of the new features offered by the OS and other developments. That includes full unicode support and full support of Services. With the MacOS X' built-in spell-checker. At present you cannot use chars not present in MacRoman and mistypings aren't marked. Nevertheless, the application's tree view when reading a node is second to none. -- Per Erik R�nne http://www.RQNNE.dk Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare turpe |