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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: 2 Jun 2014 21:47:35 GMT
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On 2014-06-02, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.06.02, 10:20 , Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote:
>> I’ve mentioned here before that I’ve been working on a newsreader due to the
>> death of MT-NewsWatcher on Mavericks.
>
>        "Signal: Bring Usenet Back to the Mac"
>
>              Unison: still works fine.
>         Thunderbird: still works fine.
>              others: still work fine.

I love how people come out of the wood work to bash anything new just
because they can't bring themselves to open their minds and embrace
change. We can see this happening with the WWDC announcements Apple made
today. It'd be pretty silly to claim that none of the above Usenet
clients could use improvement in any way.

> Usenet is a dying medium and an app won't revive it.

I plan to continue using it, as are others. 

> In the meantime, Thunderbird is more than adequate and free.

Thunderbird does have problems (some that probably will never be
fixed), just like others do.

> I also have Unison 2.  But prefer the simple layout of TB.

Do you also prefer the way Thunderbord treats Unicode text, because it
sure seems to have fucked up the text in your reply. I imagine Signal
might just do a better job here. And I imagine it might just do better
in other ares as well. It certainly sounds like the design will be
better, and the general community would certainly benefit from a
well-designed framework such as being suggested.

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JR