Re: What Features Do You Want In A Newsreader?

In article <leo-A0A8E1.22180022052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Leonard Blaisdell <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <tim-A130A7.23594022052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tim <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you had followed this thread, you wouldn't be making a troll
reference. Try reading the earlier posts before you post any more silly
responses.

<Tim said excerpts>

I've found that a program like Xnews on a PC can
download about over 100,000 headers in the time that it takes Thoth or
MT to download 10,000.

True

With Xnews, I just open the group once. With MT, I have to open
the newsgroup, read, select all, mark read, close window, open
newsgroup, and start over again ...

Example of how superior speed in Windows newsreader downloading allows
me to get more done in less time than within Mac newsreaders. (I still
use MT and Thoth ... but I want better performance.)

I don't use a Mac so I can use command line programs that make DOS look
advanced. ;)

You haven't been a mac user for long, have you? Once upon a time, Mac
users used to laugh at DOS users. Mac users love the Mac user interface
ease-of-use. It's nice that OS X's unix underpinnings allows us to run
unix applications but I'm not going to choose a shell command, terminal
application, or X Windows application for an advanced use when I can run
an application using the Mac's native and superior user interface.

If the OS isn't having an
impact, then how do you explain why the Mac is slower at header
downloading across every mac newsreader? Is every mac newsreader
inefficiently coded or is Mac OS the bottleneck?

True

There is a reason why OS X appears to have the slowest GUI of the major
OS - Windows, Linux distros, and just about every other UNIX out there.

If you think I'm alone in my critiques of Finder performance, try
reading Macintouch.com from the last week. Dozens of users have been
complaining about Finder speed and quirks. Are they all trolls too?

If you had followed this thread, you wouldn't be making a troll
reference. Try reading the earlier posts before you post any more silly
responses.

<Tim said excerpts/>

This is what 'Tim said' throughout the thread: He's a troll.
Apologies to the group for copy and paste instead of direct quoting. The
six posts I took the direct quotes from are readily available. Correct
quoting would have been a mess. >>>>>>

Whatever. So anyone who has an opinion different than yours is a troll?
.

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