Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:09:28 -0600 From: David Moorman Organization: It's around here somewhere Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:09:28 -0600 Message-ID: <2014030323092839441-dmoorman4@comcastnet> References: <2014022114304519179-dmoorman4@comcastnet> <2014030222585243346-dmoorman4@comcastnet> <2014030308554983883-xxx@yyyzzz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Thoth again User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-YK3YE0BEYwUcXvOUdKkxSodCp5MhpGuT3qQsKm+Tw7FHKh7Nr4O6hY7cr48TVX8OGuDasai0khKrzPg!ov1Hq1Fc0j1itmTVsOnludYZrNfrm42vkYzc+dkMJjWLllYZZKEidJzcehzm53Os X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2548 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:21322 On 2014-03-03 16:55:49 +0000, gtr said: > On 2014-03-03 04:58:52 +0000, David Moorman said: > >> On 2014-02-24 00:13:16 +0000, Michael Vilain said: >> >>> In article <2014022114304519179-dmoorman4@comcastnet>, >>> David Moorman wrote: >>> >>>> I recall seeing a long thread regarding the demise of Thoth here, but >>>> now I can't access it using Unison. >>>> >>>> Here's my question - >>>> >>>> I downloaded Thoth a couple of years ago, so the one month trial period >>>> has ended. Even a new download says that the trial is over and asks >>>> for the registration code. Now it's impossible to obtain a >>>> registration code. >>>> >>>> Is there a work-around? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Dave >>> >>> Not without a TARDIS and access to the developer's systems. >>> >>> Time to look for alternatives... >> >> I've been using Unison but it's slow and clumsy in some aspects. I >> may be forced to read the manual. > > I find it simple and direct. It does what one would expect, but it's > not an all-purpose ginsu-knife for every usenet usage. I found myself in trouble from deleting posts - particularly pictures. Subsequent posts would all be mis-named. I was able to correct it by deleting and resubscribing to the newsgroups - now the image have the proper filenames.