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Re: Which news reader application for OS X?

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From: SteveH
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:12
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Vaughan Wittorff <vww20@nospam-cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have up until yesterday used Netscape Messenger 4.79 on a Windows 95
> machine to read news (sorry).
> 
> It looks to me that Netscape 7 does not allow for reading of news, nor
> does OS X's Mail (which immediately has become my preferred mail tool),
> and nor does Safari (which immediately has become my preferred browser).
> 
> So what do people use to read news under OS X?  How popular is 
> MT-NewsWatcher 3.2?

MacSoup is my preferred newsreader, and has been since I OS8.6 was big
news, and I've also been playing with Entourage - which is pretty good
for those who've just come over from PCs.
-- 
Steve H
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From: steve@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH)
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Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:12:36 +0100
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