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From: Dorian Gray on 18 Oct 2009 12:39 In article <4ad9cd89$0$23817$e4fe514c(a)dreader14.news.xs4all.nl>, Cat <0kevi(a)accessforall.invalid> wrote: > I love MTNW, because of its superior filtering. I also use MTNW and am very happy with it, although I have never used MacSOUP. About to upgrade from MTNW 3.4 to to 3.5.2.
From: Andrew Templeman on 19 Oct 2009 02:15 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Pat O'Halloran <kelpie(a)danu.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Which server is this? > > > > > > From the Beriln server, here, MacSOUP is jolly quick. > > > > news.individual.net > > I think that's the berlin server. > > Yup. > > Here MacSOUP downloads several dozen articles a second. Well that's what > it looks like- I haven't done any tests. > > I have no idea why you should be seeing such a difference. Check your MacSoup settings , the 'incoming' page and 'no batched NNTP commands' checkbox. This is off on mine. -- Andy Templeman <http://www.templeman.org.uk/>
From: James Dore on 19 Oct 2009 09:19 On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:57:10 +0100, Pat O'Halloran <kelpie(a)danu.co.uk> wrote: > I know this question is often asked but I'm posting again in case I've > missed some newcomers. > > What decent Newsreaders are ther out there? > > I use MacSOUP and have done for years but it is getting very slow. I > know others haven't noticed this but it often takes an age to download > posts. I got a trial version of Unison and tried this and it downloads > much faster from the same server. However, I'm not sure I like Unison. > > Is there anything else out there worth looking at? > > Cheers Having been an Opera browser user for too many years to mention, (I paid for it :-) I happened to try the newsreader in it a few months ago. I haven't been back to MacSoup since, I just wish I could remap Opera's keys to the MacSoup defaults that I've grown used to.... Cheers, -- James Dore New College IT Officer james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new
From: J. J. Lodder on 19 Oct 2009 15:24 James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:57:10 +0100, Pat O'Halloran <kelpie(a)danu.co.uk> > wrote: > > > I know this question is often asked but I'm posting again in case I've > > missed some newcomers. > > > > What decent Newsreaders are ther out there? > > > > I use MacSOUP and have done for years but it is getting very slow. I > > know others haven't noticed this but it often takes an age to download > > posts. I got a trial version of Unison and tried this and it downloads > > much faster from the same server. However, I'm not sure I like Unison. > > > > Is there anything else out there worth looking at? > > > > Cheers > > Having been an Opera browser user for too many years to mention, (I paid > for it :-) I happened to try the newsreader in it a few months ago. I > haven't been back to MacSoup since, I just wish I could remap Opera's keys > to the MacSoup defaults that I've grown used to.... If only I could remap MacSoup's keys to something that makes more sense, Jan
From: James Dore on 20 Oct 2009 03:27
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:24:37 +0100, J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:57:10 +0100, Pat O'Halloran <kelpie(a)danu.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >> > I know this question is often asked but I'm posting again in case I've >> > missed some newcomers. >> > >> > What decent Newsreaders are ther out there? >> > >> > I use MacSOUP and have done for years but it is getting very slow. I >> > know others haven't noticed this but it often takes an age to download >> > posts. I got a trial version of Unison and tried this and it downloads >> > much faster from the same server. However, I'm not sure I like Unison. >> > >> > Is there anything else out there worth looking at? >> > >> > Cheers >> >> Having been an Opera browser user for too many years to mention, (I paid >> for it :-) I happened to try the newsreader in it a few months ago. I >> haven't been back to MacSoup since, I just wish I could remap Opera's >> keys >> to the MacSoup defaults that I've grown used to.... > > If only I could remap MacSoup's keys > to something that makes more sense, Ah, yes - there is that :-D Cheers, -- James Dore New College IT Officer james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new |