Re: Newsreader suggestions?

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:01:41 +0100, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter
Ceresole) wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyroadup, I like to start with a newsreader that works, then worry
about the twiddly bits. ;-)

MacSOUP does work- brilliantly.

For you obviously.

I'm sure you could learn to do so in
minutes.

I guess it depends on how many minutes you mean by a few. I spent
quite a lot of minutes paying with that and most of the other
newsreaders put forward here and none of them worked in what I found
was a logic way (ignoring floating windows or whatever). Like this
MaxNews last night ... I configured it, downloaded 100,000+
newgroups, found ucsm, and it then it said it was going to take 35days
15days 5days 26 hours 15hours and then looked like that was the final
score. So I stopped it and went to send a quick test message but the
'send' button (wasn't called that) appeared to do nothing ... so I
gave up. Had it looked 'more likely to succeed in general I might of
tried further but it didn't so I didn't.

As for the multiple windows, you really don't get it, do you?

Yes but don't want it (thanks).

On the Mac you have as many windows open as you want; no more, no less.

Except in some newsreaders where you get the lot, want them or not. I
was told you could dock some of them but never found out how.

You're not using Windows, where you're limited to a rigid interface
designed by a fellow whose day job is designing giveaway plastic toys
that go in corn flakes packets.

I don't care what OS it's on, I just want it to work and work easily
(however and by whoever it was 'designed'). Just why do you think so
many folk still run Agent under Crossover / Parallels / VM's etc? The
same people who happily run all the other Mac versions of things yet
still can't find anything to replace Agent? I don't care that you
like multiple windows for such apps in the same way you don't care
that I don't, and in many instances even I can see why it would be an
advantage (like I can with tool boxes and palettes on drawing packages
etc), but on a Newsreader, why? Seriously, what couldn't you do if you
had one just screen representing your newsreader (and you were still
able to switch between them)?

All I'm saying is so far I haven't found a Mac based newsreader that
works *as well* as Agent does for me (and as with MaxNews yesterday I
do keep trying them).

If you can tell me how I can run MacSoup so that what I'm doing
at_that_time is in the foreground window I'll give it another go.
When I'm typing a reply I have no interest in the other 60 n/gs I'm
subscribed to, nor the thread list, nor that it's 'Currently not
downloading anything', I will give that or any other McNewsreater
another go.

It must be possible and you must know how to do it because you said
"On the Mac you have as many windows open as you want; no more, no
less." ;-)

Requirements:

1) ONE screen with tabs / buttons to navigate between group list,
message list and message (one_at_a time, I don't have room on my
screen for more than that and be able to read them comfortably.
Neither can I read 3 screens at once, I'm not a fly).

2) An indication by colour change when new messages are downloaded.

3) An indication that a message has been read.

4) A simple thread hierarchy view, not diagram.

5) Spell checker.

6) Instant posting of message on 'Send'.

7) Message transfer progress within the same screen somewhere (bar / x
of y, whatever) but not floating or overlapping anything else. I want
it there I care less where it is.








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