 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2007good nntp client for mac
any good nntp clients for mac os x? > any good nntp clients for mac os x? Extremely wide variety - from CLI apps to super GUI-fied. Depends on your taste & use. http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html Unison is new kid, pretty seductive, but ultimately a v1 baby with some issues, especially re: binaries. MT-Newswatcher fills most needs except for posting binaries (no yEnc for posting). I'm partial to Hogwasher.  SignatureTim lance_1012@hotmail.com > any good nntp clients for mac os x? I've tried a lot of NNTP clients for OS X since I bought my MacBook back in January but haven't yet been able to find one that suits my needs (I'm only interested in text-only groups, no need for binaries). The most popular ones are probably MacSoup and MT-newswatcher and I've tried really hard to learn to use them and get used to them but had to give up at the end. They're just far too confusing, irritating and butt-ugly to my liking. There's hope though. Malcom has just released a few days ago the first public beta of Nemo, a brand new NNTP client specifically designed for MacOS X (as opposed to most other NNTP client under OS X which are ports of Mac OS 7 or Linux software) with a beautiful, sraightforward to use, iLife style UI. It still has a lot of issues but it's worth trying and contributing to the beta forum. You can get it here: <http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo/> and the forum is there: <http://www.malcom-mac.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1> > There's hope though. Malcom has just released a few days ago the first > public beta of Nemo, a brand new NNTP client specifically designed for > MacOS X Oh yes, and note that i'm am in no way related or affilated with Malcom. I just think that Nemo is the first NNTP reader for MacOS X that I would consider usable for my needs and I really hope that the remaining bugs get fixed quickly. I use rtin. Works fine but not perfect. /PaulN >> any good nntp clients for mac os x? > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > <http://www.malcom-mac.com/nemo/> and the forum is there: > <http://www.malcom-mac.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1> And if you're going to use that why not use Thunderbird? SignatureTim lance_1012@hotmail.com > And if you're going to use that why not use Thunderbird? In my desperate quest to find a newsreader that would satisify my rather small list of requirements, I did try thunderbird a few months ago. But I've immdiately found a showstopper problem with it. I *think* that the problem was that thunderbird would not let you mark a discussion thread so that it always sticks at the top of the list. It would let you mark a thread but doing so would only plac a small icon in front of the marked thread. After a few hours, the thread would get lost among all the new discussion threads making it impossible to keep track of an interesting discusion and to quickly scan newsgroups for new posts in threads you've marked. IIRC there is a way in thunderbird to filter the messages to only display the marked threads but I've found it far too annoying to have to constantly switch between All / Marked when all I needed was to have the threads that were of interest for me stick at the top of the list. Nemo on the other side will let you mark a thread as sticky (or whatever it's called in Nemo). Sticky threads stick at the top of the list and are displayed in a different color making it a breeze to follow interesting discussions. A small detail for some probably but this "detail" means the world to me given the way I use newsgroups. >> And if you're going to use that why not use Thunderbird? > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > discussions. A small detail for some probably but this "detail" means the > world to me given the way I use newsgroups. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. Still, $20? Of course many think the Hog's lovers are insane for spending what we do! SignatureTim lance_1012@hotmail.com > Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. Still, $20? Well, Nemo is only $15 and I spend more than that in coffee and beer every week so if those $15 can really make my life easier and given than an NNTP client is far from being easy to implement especially one with such a well-thought interface as Nemo, I would gladly pay those $15. I'm still waiting for it to be mostly bug-free first though. > Of course many think the Hog's lovers are insane for spending what we do! $50 sure is a lot especially if you're not interested in binaries (which is my case). At this price, i'd expect it to be almost perfect. So I tried it too full of hope but was very disapointed. It's not bad, far from it, but not worth that much money in my opinion. >> Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. Still, $20? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > well-thought interface as Nemo, I would gladly pay those $15. I'm still > waiting for it to be mostly bug-free first though. That 14.99 is euros, not dollars. >> Of course many think the Hog's lovers are insane for spending what we do! > > $50 sure is a lot especially if you're not interested in binaries (which is > my case). At this price, i'd expect it to be almost perfect. So I tried it > too full of hope but was very disapointed. It's not bad, far from it, but > not worth that much money in my opinion. Oh, no. For only text HW is overkill at any price! SignatureTim lance_1012@hotmail.com >>> Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. Still, $20? >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > That 14.99 is euros, not dollars. You're right, my bad. |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.