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Article #109Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
From: Patrick Navin
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 07:37
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 -- Remove YOUR PANTS to reply http://www.notepad-computer.co.uk http://www.patrick.navin.btinternet.co.uk/B834763868/index.html "Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youths." - George W. Bush
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc20b,7c2ce4e9f9f3c729 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc20b,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,7c2ce4e9f9f3c729 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-23 00:37:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!host81-129-17-169.in-addr.btopenworld.COM!not-for-mail From: Patrick Navin <mingemagnetYOURPANTS@btopenworld.com> Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X? Date: 23 Aug 2003 07:37:12 GMT Organization: <none> Lines: 35 Message-ID: <20030823083713537+0100@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <vww20-8D53FC.04253023082003@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <1g04xdu.i0opmjogvuqeN%steve@italiancar.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-129-17-169.in-addr.btopenworld.com (81.129.17.169) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1061624232 6146169 81.129.17.169 (16 [101424]) User-Agent: Halime (MacOSX)/1.0rc2b