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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 8 Feb 2014 16:27:11 GMT
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On 2014-02-08, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <bllhn5FcrlrU2@mid.individual.net> 
>   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.
>
> vim or BBEdit for me.

I meant vim. : )

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