Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sandman Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:53:37 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FqqNwT0SCZnqj63duQvWXARQ//XPcdr6OS5Q0od4lT0ioOgr0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:qy4ZL2qn2ToHkt+jhXOB96G0n+U= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:18693 So, being abandoned by the best usenet software ever made, MT-NewsWatcher, I among many of you are stuck in the question about what software we should use now... I am currently trying out thunderbird, and I think it's a better candidate than Unison even though Unison does look better, but is a more rudimentary reader. Thunderbird shares some keyboard settings with MTNW for instance. Both lack *severly* in the filtering department, and frankly, I think Panic is more likely to respond to user feedback in that area. Both have an AIO window scheme, where all "views" can be contained within one window. Thunderbird handles this much better by having a read pane to the right of the list, with Unison only having it below. Whichever you choose, the question of synchronization comes up. I use MT-NW on my work Mac and my laptop. I use dropbox to synchronize the .newsrc file which works seemlessly. MTNW also supports storing the .newsrc file on a FTP server for sharing. Neither Unison or Thunderbird have sharing built in, so do anyone know what files to sync (via dropbox, for example) for either to remain in sync - I mean syncing filter settings, account settings and group subscriptions and read status of those groups? What is your current plan? -- Sandman[.net]