Newsreaders in general
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From: Doc O'Leary on 22 Jun 2010 12:54 In article <hvog0h$4j4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > One thing that I _wish_ would work in Usenet is the Bayesian junk mail > filtering. Imagine having your reader learn what _you_ consider > not worth reading and keeping it out of your way. <http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/docs/JunkFilter.html> Imagine how much faster it would be if I could just *tell* it what to filter out; at least that's why *I* don't use the junk filter in MT-NW. Although I would say that one of the major shortcomings of all Usenet clients I've used is that they discard the offending messages that prompt me to create filters, when I'd *really* like to be able to cross reference them and possibly set up more general filters. -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, astraweb.com, and probably your server, too.
From: Jason S on 28 Jun 2010 13:39 I use Unison and think it's great. Then again, I have only been using Usenet for a couple months now. (Actually trying out Giganews and Usenetserver to see which one I like better. Got deals for both companies). I'm looking for other newsreaaders and seem to keep landing at Unison. -- Jason
From: TaliesinSoft on 29 Jun 2010 10:12 On 2010-06-28 23:08:15 -0500, Michael Vilain said: > If you're happy with Unison, keep using it. Most of the other > Newsreaders have more advanced features that will likely not be > important to you (e.g. regex filtering on any header). I'm one who uses Unison and am overall quite happy with it. There are currently a few glitches that I've communicated with Panic (the implementors of Unison) about and I expect that they will be addressed in the next release. I will also say that I'm one that hasn't felt any need for filtering, finding it easy enough to pass by postings that are not of interest to me. I'm also one that has no interest (or even pleasure) in "plonking". My main interest in Usenet is participating in discussions about things Macintosh where I subscribe to eleven Mac centric groups. ("Advocacy" is not one of them!) I do apply a few rules which highlight postings I have made and postings which are crossposted. For quite a few years Hogwasher was my newsreader of choice, but I switched to Unison at the same time I upgraded the OS from Leopard to Snow Leopard, feeling that Hogwasher had become an abandoned product. At first I missed the threaded message display, but over time that has pretty much subsided. -- James Leo Ryan -- Austin, Texas -- <taliesinsoft(a)me.com>
From: Jason S on 29 Jun 2010 13:39 On 2010-06-29 10:12:52 -0400, TaliesinSoft said: > On 2010-06-28 23:08:15 -0500, Michael Vilain said: > >> If you're happy with Unison, keep using it. Most of the other >> Newsreaders have more advanced features that will likely not be >> important to you (e.g. regex filtering on any header). > > I'm one who uses Unison and am overall quite happy with it. There are > currently a few glitches that I've communicated with Panic (the > implementors of Unison) about and I expect that they will be addressed > in the next release. I will also say that I'm one that hasn't felt any > need for filtering, finding it easy enough to pass by postings that are > not of interest to me. I'm also one that has no interest (or even > pleasure) in "plonking". My main interest in Usenet is participating in > discussions about things Macintosh where I subscribe to eleven Mac > centric groups. ("Advocacy" is not one of them!) I do apply a few rules > which highlight postings I have made and postings which are > crossposted. For quite a few years Hogwasher was my newsreader of > choice, but I switched to Unison at the same time I upgraded the OS > from Leopard to Snow Leopard, feeling that Hogwasher had become an > abandoned product. At first I missed the threaded message display, but > over time that has pretty much subsided. Unison is great. I also use NewsTap on my iPhone. Glad to see I'm not the only one around here that uses Unison. -- Jason
From: Paul Goodman on 29 Jun 2010 17:44
On 2010-06-29 13:39:24 -0400, Jason S said: > Unison is great. I also use NewsTap on my iPhone. Glad to see I'm not > the only one around here that uses Unison. I also use Unison and like it fine. It was a little of an adjustment when I abandoned Windows and Agent, but for the most part, Unison does what I need. I don't filter, I just skip by posts I don't want to read. Based on what has been posted here, filtering is a real weak spot with this program, but that is something I have never done anyway. What I really like is the ease which Unison handles binary posts, although I will admit that I am a very light user of binary newsgroups and it may not be as good for heavy binary users. -- Paul Goodman |