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Vaughan Wittorff wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have up until yesterday used Netscape Messenger 4.79 on a Windows 95 
> machine to read news (sorry).

congratulations on dumping the dreaded doze...

> 
> 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?
> 

I tried MT-Newswatcher for a while, it drove me nuts with it refusing to 
allow you to display articles after they have been read

and yes I know you can get round this, but there seems to be no way of 
setting the defaults to show read articles

I tried many different news readers, and so far have not found one that 
does all I want, so currently use "Thunderbird" which is the news/mail 
client from Mozilla for all things but binaries groups.

The issue with "Thunderbird" and binaries groups, is its support for 
multipart attachments is odd at the best of times, then comes its its 
total lack of yenc support, which drives me nuts.

At the moment I am using hogwasher for binaries, and thunderbird for 
everything else, although I am thinking of dumping both of them for the 
pleasures of slrn

Also I tried, MacSoup, Halime, and toth, but none worked in the way I 
wanted.



> Also, how do you include those nifty little dot-matrix pics to the left 
> of the headers that I can now see?  (e.g. Tony Hall, Matt Neuburg, Mike 
> Rosenberg and especially PeterD)
> 
> Cheers,
> Vaughan


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