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From: Cloudane on 30 Oct 2009 19:43 On 2009-10-17 10:57:10 +0100, kelpie(a)danu.co.uk (Pat O'Halloran) said: > 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'm using Unison here, but am fairly new. Well, not new-new, but haven't been on Usenet for many years. Seems fine, nice and quick and simple. The only thing I'm not sure of yet is line wrapping. I see everyone else's messages neatly wrapped to the standard (78?) character length but mine are just big ol' lines, and I haven't found a setting to change it yet. Cheers Cloud -- Correct the spelling of 'usenet' to send me an email
From: Ben Shimmin on 30 Oct 2009 19:55 Cloudane <yoosenett(a)cloudane.com>: [...] > Seems fine, nice and quick and simple. The only thing I'm not sure of > yet is line wrapping. I see everyone else's messages neatly wrapped to > the standard (78?) character length but mine are just big ol' lines, > and I haven't found a setting to change it yet. I find hitting return when I get to the end of a line works pretty well. Old-fashioned, perhaps, but effective. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `...the Plain English Campaign [...] says some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important. A Campaign spokesman said the ban might stop people confusing the Latin abbreviation e.g. with the word "egg".'
From: Cloudane on 30 Oct 2009 21:09 On 2009-10-30 23:55:29 +0000, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> said: > Cloudane <yoosenett(a)cloudane.com>: > > [...] > >> Seems fine, nice and quick and simple. The only thing I'm not sure of >> yet is line wrapping. I see everyone else's messages neatly wrapped to >> the standard (78?) character length but mine are just big ol' lines, >> and I haven't found a setting to change it yet. > > I find hitting return when I get to the end of a line works pretty well. > Old-fashioned, perhaps, but effective. > > b. :) Not too bad if you remember to do so, and are fine tuned enough to.. know approximately how long lines should be. -- Correct the spelling of 'usenet' to send me an email
From: Chris Ridd on 30 Oct 2009 21:16 On 2009-10-30 23:55:29 +0000, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> said: > Cloudane <yoosenett(a)cloudane.com>: > > [...] > >> Seems fine, nice and quick and simple. The only thing I'm not sure of >> yet is line wrapping. I see everyone else's messages neatly wrapped to >> the standard (78?) character length but mine are just big ol' lines, >> and I haven't found a setting to change it yet. > > I find hitting return when I get to the end of a line works pretty well. > Old-fashioned, perhaps, but effective. Unison posts using "format=flowed" (check using View>Show Full Headers) which is a MIME thing that Mail.app also uses. This *seems* to result in the posted message having hard returns in at 72 characters when a line hits 80 characters. But when a newsreader (eg Unison!) wants to display such a post it is able to undo that wrapping and reflow the text. This works out reasonably well here. However I also have set my Message font in Unison to a monospaced font (is there any other kind for email and news?) and set the width on my message windows to about 80 of those font's characters... I still see the benefit of format=flowed when replying with quoted text, as the quoted text reflows. -- Chris
From: Ian McCall on 31 Oct 2009 04:48
On 2009-10-30 23:43:50 +0000, Cloudane <yoosenett(a)cloudane.com> said: > I'm using Unison here, but am fairly new. Well, not new-new, but > haven't been on Usenet for many years. I -have- been on Usenet for many years, and am also on Unison. About the only thing that annoys me for Unison is that I can't scale the fonts using the normal cmd-+ shortcuts, other than that it works well for me. Would also like an enhancement to accept .newsrc files so that I can sync with Newstap on the iPhone, but that's just a nicety. Cheers, Ian |