Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

One other thing, I'm not so sure unison handles offline reading.
Whenever i click on a group or article to read it seems it has to
connect to the server.  Not a good thing for me.  That was one of my
biggest requirements.

I so miss Halime, just don't know why it quit connecting to aioe all
the sudden.

I think if you like Unison you should stick with it. I don't think the
post you are replying to is worth consideration.

I tried Unison a while back and I felt it had some very excellent
aspects to it especially the way it displays the group list in a
columnar fashion like the view that arrived with OS X.

I think there's a chance that this thread will have some other
suggestions for newsreaders so I'm going to suggest the one I use; this
just happens to be the one I like best, but I think you should try out
a several yourself and pick the one you like best.

Okay, the one I like best is Hogwasher which you can get here:

< http://www.asar.com/index.html>

This is a very full feature newsreader indeed and so it is worth
spending quite a bit of time with it to find out all the things it
offers.

As well as Usenet I find Hogwasher to be excellent for email discussion
lists.

Here are a few of the things it has:

A thread map which is a window showing the current thread as a map of
little circles and squares with each joined up according to which
follows from which.

Extensive filtering capabilities and will display only replied-to
messages of course, in addition you get filters to label messages by
any colour you like depending on criteria set in the filter.

You can filter into archives and create as many archives as you like.
There is a ready-made archive which keeps a copy of all "Sent"
postings.

Full online and offline operation retaining all header info from one
session to the next for each message.

Ability to combine newsgroups to be displayed together in one article
listing window with cross-posts eliminated to one posting. So for
example you can create a listing window displaying the headers for all
the newsgroups on the Mac relevant to you, but you won't be hassled by
the frequent cross-posting in those newsgroups because there won't be
cross-posting duplication in that single article window.

From the special archive for "Sent" postings you can cancel articles
after you've sent them and supersede them if you wish, with an updated
posting. This won't always work because of the difference with servers
sometimes, but I find it works very frequently.

Multiple identities can be created along with as many signatures as you
like. You can match identities with different newsgroups and have
different signatures for different newsgroups. You can even have it
randomly select signatures from those you've created if you like.

Extensive scheduling capabilities, so you can get it to download
overnight for example, or maybe just check to see if anything new has
come in every half hour or so if you prefer.