Newsreaders in general
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From: Doc O'Leary on 10 Jun 2010 12:58 In article <100620100730428340%HP(a)snotmail.com>, High Priest <HP(a)snotmail.com> wrote: > The two things that were of note to me are (a) Thoth is not included; Thoth is not an actively supported client. > and (b) No newsreader-for-Mac seems to include all of the tabulated > features. Unison seems to, despite being a pretty crappy client when it comes to actually reading Usenet. > I've expressed before the opinion that there is no truly functional, > stable, fully-featured, professional, easy-to-use NNTP reader. I, too, have frequently expressed that opinion. > I would happily pay $100 for such as > tool. Why, I wonder, is no developer interested to develop such a > thing? As a developer, I am interested in 1000 people who would pay that, not one. Round them up and you'd have plenty of other developers who would probably be interested. Until then, you're just like every other person who has a great idea for custom software that they'd like written for next to nothing. -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, astraweb.com, and probably your server, too.
From: TaliesinSoft on 10 Jun 2010 17:30 On 2010-06-10 11:58:05 -0500, Doc O'Leary said: > Unison seems to, despite being a pretty crappy client when it comes to > actually reading Usenet. I'm curious as to what you find as "pretty crappy" when it comes to Unison's reading Usenet. I've been using Unison for about six months and although I fround a few minor quirks (which I have reported to Panic and which are being addressed) but none that I can think of that relate to reading postings. -- James Leo Ryan -- Austin, Texas -- <taliesinsoft(a)me.com>
From: Jolly Roger on 10 Jun 2010 18:00 In article <87d3seFnaiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-10 11:58:05 -0500, Doc O'Leary said: > > > Unison seems to, despite being a pretty crappy client when it comes to > > actually reading Usenet. > > I'm curious as to what you find as "pretty crappy" when it comes to > Unison's reading Usenet. I've been using Unison for about six months > and although I fround a few minor quirks (which I have reported to > Panic and which are being addressed) but none that I can think of that > relate to reading postings. Its biggest shortcomings are filtering and the lack of an automated mechanism to mark cross-posted articles as read, IMO. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Malcolm on 10 Jun 2010 21:49 On 2010-06-10 18:00:25 -0400, Jolly Roger said: > In article <87d3seFnaiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-06-10 11:58:05 -0500, Doc O'Leary said: >> >>> Unison seems to, despite being a pretty crappy client when it comes to >>> actually reading Usenet. >> >> I'm curious as to what you find as "pretty crappy" when it comes to >> Unison's reading Usenet. I've been using Unison for about six months >> and although I fround a few minor quirks (which I have reported to >> Panic and which are being addressed) but none that I can think of that >> relate to reading postings. > > Its biggest shortcomings are filtering and the lack of an automated > mechanism to mark cross-posted articles as read, IMO. You can now have a folder containing many newsgroups, so a cross-posted article only how once if you open the folder.
From: Doc O'Leary on 11 Jun 2010 13:15
In article <jollyroger-553AF9.17002510062010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <87d3seFnaiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > > > On 2010-06-10 11:58:05 -0500, Doc O'Leary said: > > > > > Unison seems to, despite being a pretty crappy client when it comes to > > > actually reading Usenet. > > > > I'm curious as to what you find as "pretty crappy" when it comes to > > Unison's reading Usenet. I've been using Unison for about six months > > and although I fround a few minor quirks (which I have reported to > > Panic and which are being addressed) but none that I can think of that > > relate to reading postings. > > Its biggest shortcomings are filtering and the lack of an automated > mechanism to mark cross-posted articles as read, IMO. In addition to that, I found it terribly slow to download headers/articles, and it couldn't be automated to do *that*, either. It's pretty pointless for it to have a database backend and still force the user to wait, wait, wait for most things to come over the network. Most damning of all is that I have never seen anyone from Panic here when discussions of Usenet clients come up. They really don't seem to care, and it shows. -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, astraweb.com, and probably your server, too. |