Re: Looking for Macintosh newsreader
- From: gp@xxxxxxxxx (Greg Pratt)
- Date: 3 May 2008 03:37:28 -0400
In article <yBpSj.125826$fB7.97089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jack Hamilton <jfh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have gone over to the other side and bought a Macintosh.
I think I've found most of the programs I need, except for a newsreader.
Here's what I'm looking for:
1) The ability to download headers only and filter them for crossposts
and various other things.
2) The ability to download selected message bodies for later offline use.
3) The ability to mark certain messages as "Keep", so they will never be
deleted because of age unless I unmark them first. Implicit in that
request is the ability to automatically delete messages over a certain
age unless they're marked.
MT-NewsWatcher, in spite of its age, generally does an excellent job of
reading news. It's recently been released as a Universal binary, so it
will work on Intel-based Macs as well as the older PowerPC variety. Its
filtering is very robust, and will largely run on just headers (unless
you specify something to work with body text), which keeps it fairly
nimble. My only real beef with the program is that it is rather
ungraceful about handling UTF-8 text. More to the point, it doesn't
allow for any flexibility with fonts when displaying such text, even
when they're in a Roman script.
Thunderbird is much better about UTF-8, but I find its filtering
capabilities quite primitive, especially when compared to MT-NW.
Both programs are fairly good about *posting* news articles, and are
good at following standards for such posts (or can be configured to do
so). For just reading, I'm told that Unison is excellent, but when I
last tried it, I found its posting capabilities to be inferior. It
seems that there are few modern Usenet clients that are geared toward
reading and posting text. Unison is unabashedly an excellent program
for reading and extracting files from binary newsgroups, which seems to
be the prevailing view of Usenet's purpose for children of the Internet.
4) The ability to import my old kept messages from Forte Agent (I can
get those old messages into standard mail format if necessary.
Forget about it. Export the messages from Forte and keep them in a
separate archive. I wouldn't try to mix-and-match them between
programs.
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