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From: Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 8 Feb 2014 02:28:16 GMT
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On 2014-02-08, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Me too but while I'm comfortable with VI, I prefer TextWrangler.