On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MT-NW is a bit funky iface-wise, but it's a great newsreader. And
it's under active development.
Every newsreader has a learning curve. IMO, MT-NW's is one of the
easiest.
Compared to the ones I tried, it ranked worst in my opinion. True,
Hogwasher crashed when I tried to fetch messages, but it had a
cleaner, simpler interface.
I can't seem to figure out how to get it to download messages
older than a few days ago, even though I'm on a newsgroup server
that keeps 25 days worth.
Read the docs.
But that goes against the Mac philosophy doesn't it? You know, 'just
use it'. I mean, not in this day and age of computers and software
development. I mean for the basic operations of an application, you
shouldn't have to read the docs/manual. Sure, if you're trying to do
something exotic or hardcore, or some special, rarely-used feature,
but not for the main functions the program was written for. I mean
we're not using WordPerfect for DOS anymore (how many keystroke
combos can you memorize?).
I just downloaded Unison, on a recommendation from another list user,
and it is FANTASTIC. As simple to use as Mail.app, very similar
format, true OSX interface, downloaded 25000 articles in the first
batch with a "Get More" icon in the top bar, you click it and guess
what, it gets more! Doesn't get much simpler than that, plus it
makes searching for anything a breeze and groups everything into very
easy to understand categories (messages, files, images, music) which
you can search separately.
I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it yet...it will take some
of the 'evil' out of usenet. :)
Rad...
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