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NewsWatcher1.3bx...Now I have to find another news reader!!

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From: Everette Allen
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 15:24
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I have used NewsWather 1.0.2 for quite a while and like it very much with
a few exceptions.  No along comes 1.3bx and I will have to switch to
something else.  Why??  It has become rn from the unix world!!  I like the 
increased speed...but the mac user interface violations are not worth it.
In 1.0.2 groups were bold if they had new traffic and pain text if not nice
simple easy to understand.  Bring it back!!  The finder-like triangles in the 
left margin are good but just as awkward as in the finder to use.  Give me
an option to hide them. The use of the - sign to indicate read/unread is not
as easy to spot as the bold/not indicator.  The space bar --> next artical is
not done in the same way as the unix rn (there it pages to the end of the art.
and then goes to the next art.  n is used to do --> next art.). Just make the
pageup and pagedown keys work and some command key sequence or user 
definable keys (cmd space bar is not too bad:-) available.  Stay with the mac
interface.  If I wanted unix news I would log on to my unix account and use
that!!  I don't really mean to flame because the new version is very fast and
seems like it will have many good new features (menus that are not implemented
should be grayed and stay that way) just please remember we need to best of
the mac first...then unix :-).  
Still with 1.0.2... EVerette
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From: everette@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (Everette Allen)
Subject: NewsWatcher1.3bx...Now I have to find another news reader!!
Message-ID: <1992Aug6.152459.20672@ncsu.edu>
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 15:24:59 GMT
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