MacSOUP still the best offline newsreader?

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Jamie Kahn Genet - 16 Dec 2004 06:31 GMT

I'm a long time MacSOUP user (forced to temporarily use Google Groups
thanks to my hopeless freaking ISP's news server... but that's another
story) for both Usenet and email. I love MacSOUP's threaded display
for news and email and offline capability.

However, I do wonder if something better has appeared on the scene in
the past six years. It's been that long since I last tested another
newsreader (aside from keeping MT-NW around for the occasional online
news browse or binary posting).

Can anything else match MacSOUP's brilliant threaded display of news
and email, clean intuitive interface, offline capability and ease of
use? I don't _have_ to have a combined Usenet/email client but I have
tried several email clients over the past few years - Eudora,
Mailsmith (very powerful and flexible), MS-OE (what a horrible
experience that was *shudder*), SweetMail, Musashi (beautiful
interface), Netscape, Mozilla, Magellan Pro, Finder Mail, Mulberry
(cluttered) - and _none_ come close to MacSOUP's ease of reading
mailing lists.

Nonetheless, is there a better offline newsreader out there?

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Jamie Kahn Genet

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Andy Hewitt - 16 Dec 2004 10:27 GMT

> I'm a long time MacSOUP user (forced to temporarily use Google Groups
> thanks to my hopeless freaking ISP's news server... but that's another
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> Nonetheless, is there a better offline newsreader out there?

Nope.

However, there are a couple you might want to try that you haven't yet.
Hogwasher is a popular alternative, if a little expensive. The thread
disply still isn't a tidy as MacSOUP's though.

If you don't mind dabbling in Unix, get a Fink installation and download
Pan, that's a very nice news reader, although it doesn't have a
graphical thread display, it is very feature packed, and the thread
display is clearer than most.

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Lars Farm - 16 Dec 2004 16:02 GMT

>> Nonetheless, is there a better offline newsreader out there?

MacSOUP is still the best

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Mike Rosenberg - 17 Dec 2004 02:29 GMT

> Nonetheless, is there a better offline newsreader out there?

In my opinion, MacSOUP is still the best, but the alternative for
offline readers is still Hogwasher.

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Tom Malcolm - 17 Dec 2004 06:22 GMT

Yep, MacSoup is the best - except you you need a yenc
decoder for binaries. I LOVE MacSoup - best served
warm, with a side of email and www....

> In my opinion, MacSOUP is still the best, but the alternative for
> offline readers is still Hogwasher.

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Anders Eklöf - 17 Dec 2004 19:40 GMT

> Yep, MacSoup is the best - except you you need a yenc
> decoder for binaries. I LOVE MacSoup - best served
> warm, with a side of email and www....

You need to decode some UUE as well :-)
But with the right tools, it's piece of cake.
However you don't want to *post* binaries with MacSOUP.
Been there, done that !!! It's possible, but ...

I mostly agree with the others, but for convenience I use Thoth for most
binary groups.

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Verne Arase - 23 Dec 2004 19:48 GMT

>> Nonetheless, is there a better offline newsreader out there?
>
> In my opinion, MacSOUP is still the best, but the alternative for
> offline readers is still Hogwasher.

Nice thing about Hogwasher is you can use it online or offline, whereas
MacSOUP is pretty much an offline reader.

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