Reading RCM via Mac?

[steamer]

--A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
reading usenet. I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
clue what's on the Mac side.
Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal

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[Spehro Pefhany]

On 25 Mar 2010 20:05:34 GMT, steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:

> --A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
>reading usenet.

Google?
;-)

>I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
>clue what's on the Mac side.
> Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal

I've heard Unison is okay.

[Ecnerwal]

In article <4babc20e$0$1664$742e...@news.sonic.net>,
steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:

> --A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
> reading usenet. I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
> clue what's on the Mac side.
> Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal

MT-NewsWatcher

Works well, mine has been (last few months, not sure what set it off)
occasionally claiming it's closed unexpectedly when I've actually
closed/quit it intentionally, but other than that I've been using it for
many years with no problems (and it seems to saves the read news
correctly even when that happens).

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[Erik]

In article <4babc20e$0$1664$742e...@news.sonic.net>,
steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:

> --A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
> reading usenet. I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
> clue what's on the Mac side.
> Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal

I've used MT Newswatcher for eons... even way back in the old system 9
days. It's a class act, I recommend it without reservation.

http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/

Erik

[Jon Elson]

steamer wrote:
> --A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
> reading usenet. I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
> clue what's on the Mac side.
> Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal
>

Well, I run Linux, but that is the base of OS-X anyway. I use
thunderbird for both email and usenet groups. I find it integrates
mail/news and web stuff pretty well. I've been using some form of
netscape/mozilla/firefox/thunderbird for at least 12 years, I think.

Jon

[DoN. Nichols]

On 2010-03-25, steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:
> --A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
> reading usenet. I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
> clue what's on the Mac side.
> Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal

Well ... I haven't done newsreading on my Mac, but if I were to
do so, I would probably download this:

<http://slrn.darwinports.com/>

so I could continue using slrn as my newsreader.

I don't know whether it supports a GUI interface on the Mac, but
I do know that it works nicely in a plain text screen, which is what I
prefer under a newsreader.

It also lets you configure which editor to use -- and I normally
use jove on my other unix systems, but if I did not have it downloaded
for the Mac (I do have it) I would probably pick emacs as the editor. I
know that one is supplied with the extras with Mac OS-X.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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[joel]

In article <slrnhqtnu0....@Katana.d-and-d.com>,
"DoN. Nichols" <dnic...@d-and-d.com> wrote:

> On 2010-03-25, steamer <ste...@sonic.net> wrote:
> > --A pal of mine was wondering what other Mac users prefer for
> > reading usenet. I'm on the PC side of the fence using putty and haven't a
> > clue what's on the Mac side.
> > Suggestions welcome and I'll pass 'em along to my pal
>
> Well ... I haven't done newsreading on my Mac, but if I were to
> do so, I would probably download this:
>
> <http://slrn.darwinports.com/>
>
> so I could continue using slrn as my newsreader.
>
> I don't know whether it supports a GUI interface on the Mac, but
> I do know that it works nicely in a plain text screen, which is what I
> prefer under a newsreader.
>
> It also lets you configure which editor to use -- and I normally
> use jove on my other unix systems, but if I did not have it downloaded
> for the Mac (I do have it) I would probably pick emacs as the editor. I
> know that one is supplied with the extras with Mac OS-X.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.

I highly recommend MT-newswatcher. Very good newsreader, very flexible,
but easy to use. http://ww.smfr.org/mtnw

--Joel

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