Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 8 Feb 2014 02:05:25 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <bllhn5FcrlrU2@mid.individual.net>
References: <l4jfnl$995$1@dont-email.me> <nospam-07233C.00490208022014@news.netikka.fi> <slrnlfavc9.j9v.timmcn@sugaree.local>
X-Trace: individual.net coiIrGatD8nEAtB5W4NaCQ6D3HTQTXcX+tzxsKlokxErLDgXX1
Cancel-Lock: sha1:ucTeD1kpiOIpLDOGk3M8s6io0qo=
X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1<n@LQ!aZ7vLO_nWbK~@T'XIS0,oAJcU.qLM dk/j8Udo?O"o9B9Jyx+ez2:B<nx(k3EdHnTvB]'eoVaR495,Rv~/vPa[e^JI+^h5Zk*i`Q;ezqDW< ZFs6kmAJWZjOH\8[$$7jm,Ogw3C_%QM'|H6nygNGhhl+@}n30Nz(^vWo@h>Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-)
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin)
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:56204 comp.sys.mac.apps:21003 comp.sys.mac.comm:2084

On 2014-02-08, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:49:03 +0200, Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> 
> wrote:
>> In article <l4jfnl$995$1@dont-email.me>,
>>  Michelle Steiner <email@michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>
>>> So what is the consensus for a newsreader to replace MTNW on 
>>> Mavericks?
>>
>> MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3.b3 via Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 via VMware Fusion 
>> 6.0.2 via OS X 10.9.1 :-|
>
> Not the solution for the average user.  ;-)  I have gone to using slrn 
> with nano as an editor in Terminal.  Not as elegant as MTNW, I grant 
> you, but it gets the job done.  Usenet has declined so much that I can't 
> justify paying for an NNTP client.  The S/N ratio has become truly 
> atrocious.  slrn's scoring weeds almost all of the spam out with a few 
> elegant rules, though, so I appreciate that.

Same here, but with vi, which I'm perfectly comfortable with.
-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR