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From: Simon Dobbs on 2 Nov 2009 02:05 On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:52:04 +0000, Rowland McDonnell wrote (in article <1j8jk9d.bw4grnew7nfoN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>): > Most Mac-like means that there's not anything to recommend it - it's > like claiming that something's `old' and must be replaced with the `new' > stuff because `new' is always better, sortathing, changing the issue > under discussion away from `useful functional issues' to `pointless > bickering about meaningless bollocks'. no it doesn't
From: Jim on 2 Nov 2009 02:12 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > Personally, I've tried most of them, and still stick with MacSOUP. > > Ditto. But: I found MacSoup to be an acquired taste. I didn't like it > for several weeks but now it'd be hard to persuade me to give it up. I knew I was going to buy it within 20mins of using it for the first time, _despite_ finding it rather confusing. There was just something about it that said "Jim, this is the one". Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: J. J. Lodder on 2 Nov 2009 03:02 the_niner_nation <the_niner_nation(a)sf49ers.com> wrote: > ok windows convert for the time it takes for apple to start shipping it's > quadcore mac..and wondering whats a good newsreader for the mac? > > in windows, windows mail/outlook express were more than adequate for my > needs, and looking for something similar to run on a mac. i dont have any > need whatsoever for binary NG's, just text ones like these... > > so sorry if this has been asked before, but thanks in advance to all.. For just text try MacSoup It's a disaster to learn, you really have to read the manual, and it takes time to get used to its quirks. Once learned it is an efficient tool to handle large volumes of postings. Don't use it's built in mailer though, Jan
From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Nov 2009 05:50 Simon Dobbs <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell wrote: > > > Most Mac-like means that there's not anything to recommend it - it's > > like claiming that something's `old' and must be replaced with the `new' > > stuff because `new' is always better, sortathing, changing the issue > > under discussion away from `useful functional issues' to `pointless > > bickering about meaningless bollocks'. > > no it doesn't QED. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Nov 2009 05:50
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > Personally, I've tried most of them, and still stick with MacSOUP. > > > > Ditto. But: I found MacSoup to be an acquired taste. I didn't like it > > for several weeks but now it'd be hard to persuade me to give it up. > > I knew I was going to buy it within 20mins of using it for the first > time, _despite_ finding it rather confusing. There was just something > about it that said "Jim, this is the one". <shrug> I used MacSoup because there was no choice. When I first got on-line at home using a Mac, there was no off-line news reader for Macs. There was allegedly a way of doing it using one bit of software to download news and something else to do the newsreading - but the system didn't work when I followed the very scanty instructions to set it up - basically, it just plain didn't work although as usual Peter Ceresole will tell you that it was a super solution that never gave him any trouble and worked perfectly all the time without any setup issues at all (which is bullshit - it was a major pain to work out how to configure and I never got it to work at all despite trying very hard for weeks). Once MacSoup turned up, there was no sense in trying to set up the crappy stuff previously made available. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |