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Re: Which news reader application for OS X?

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From: Patrick Navin
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:37
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The other day in <1g04xdu.i0opmjogvuqeN%steve@italiancar.co.uk> some 
fecker calling himself SteveH embarassed himself and wrote:
> 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.


Looks like its up to me to shout about the virtues of Halime. It's easy 
on the eye, stable and does threading properly. Even better, it's proper 
freeware

Patrick
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From: Patrick Navin <mingemagnetYOURPANTS@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
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