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Stephen Norman <steve@nogsoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Just a quick question.
> 
> I am currently using NewsWatcher v2.4.0 and was wondering what other
> offerings were available for Mac.  I use outlook for mail but have never
> tried the news side.  MacSoup looks very basic.

Hmm - MacSoup might look like it does; I find that it does everything I
need from a newsreader.  I rather like that fact that it's extremely
good at what it does and appears very simple.  Why object to something
that's easy to use?

Put it another way: what do you want your newsreader to do?

Rowland.

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Stephen Norman <steve@nogsoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Just a quick question.
> 
> I am currently using NewsWatcher v2.4.0 and was wondering what other
> offerings were available for Mac.  I use outlook for mail but have never
> tried the news side.  MacSoup looks very basic.

MacSoup seems anything but basic to me! I also find it amazingly fast at
downloading lots of posts for viewing offline.

Adrian

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:00:41 +0100, Steve Firth wrote
(in message <1dd3s35.15lh47digpm21N@[192.168.0.1]>):
>  At one pointthere was only one.. NewsHopper, then there were two NewsHopper 
> and MacSoup. Now sadly due to Laurent's illness we are back to one, MacSoup. 

what about Hogwasher?
i like it a lot.

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 19:59:59 +0100, Steve Firth wrote
(in message <1dd5drj.1k96s81ag24yyN@[192.168.0.1]>):
> 
> Simon Dobbs <std@revealer.demon.co.uk> wrote: 
> 
>> what about Hogwasher? 
> 
> Dunno, it's not one that I've tried. Having honestly registered MacSOUP I'm 
> not looking for another reader just yet, so I'll let ou enthuse about 
> Hogwasher. 
> 
> 
> 
sure- macsoup is pretty good, i was just adding to the list of available 
newsreaders (there are several more than two-remember rnmac and macslurp?). I 
like hogwasher because you can browse offline or online, or both if something 
looks particularly interesting whilst downloading headers. It's good at 
extracting binaries, and has neat scheduling/automatic connection/unconnection 
facilities. What soup beats the pants off of it with is threading. It's funny 
how each newsreader has a killer feature- a pity that someone won't put them 
all together (although, when it came out way back, newshopper seemed to do just 
that; before that, offline newsreading used to involve three programs, 'the 
triumvirate' i think they used to call them-hell to get working)
a demo of hog is available on this month's macuser cd rom. I can supply a url 
to their home page if anyone is interested.