Re: Which news reader application for OS X?

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From: Dale Stanbrough
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 22:39

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Richard Lanyon wrote:

> In article <FdR1b.58341$bo1.56930@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>  TheMartian <no_frelling_spam@get_frelled.spammer> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> You can get round it? How? (A genuine question from a casual MTNW user 
> who has always had that problem)

You hold down the option key when you double click on the group name.

It comes up with a dialog box asking how far back you would
like to read.

Another option is to "Mark as unread" which is not as convenient
as being able to mark it as "Read, but still display" (which MT
Newswatcher can't do).

Dale

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From: Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
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