Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 5:59:05 PM, Marck wrote: > You can use TB to read your newsgroups, but you have to use a third > party program to act as a go-between. See here for all the spec:
Many people already commented on the newsgroup issue, so I decided to add my two cents here. I think TB! should stay newsgroup-less. This way more detail and care is taken by the programmers to make it a great mail client and not a news client instead. Also, there are already some great news-clients on the market, so I don't see the newsgroup option as necessary at all. Personally I use a Hamster + Xnews combination for news and I don't believe I'd need to switch to anything more. This (freeware!) combination does all that I ever needed. Hamster is a desktop newsserver and it surpasses any lone newsreader in managing newsgroups (parallel feeds, scripting etc. - unbeatable), and Xnews is a great online news client also with everything that's needed. Modularity is the key and I think that MS and Netscape did wrong getting people used to the idea of having a news and mail client all-in-one. Someday people will expect one program to do everything for them, clean the dishes, etc., and then we'll have another program that does everything, but does nothing well. -- tomasz 'tonid' nidecki, zoliborz, warszawa, poland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://endemic.org http://mp3.com/tonid http://mp3.com/knownspace * Puc menjar vidre que no em fa mal. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
