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Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet?

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In article <lrgi7v$1js$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> 
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> On 2014-08-01 17:15:56 +0000, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> said:
> 
> > On 2013-10-23 17:30:59 +0000, Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> said:
> > 
> >> On 2013-10-23 11:53:37 +0000, Sandman said:
> >> 
> >>> 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?
> >> 
> >> Since this morning and playing around some more with newsreaders, I've 
> >> decided that I like Unison enough to buy it.  So I did.  Simple and 
> >> easy enough and all I do is text usenet, no binaries.  Works quite well.
> >> 
> >> Tried to like Thunderbird, but couldn't.  I kept getting 'expired post' 
> >> errors off and on and that required a close and restart every time.  
> >> Same server, same groups with Unison arene't doing that.  That error 
> >> was the final straw.  I didn't like T-bird much when I tried it a long 
> >> time ago and still don't.
> >> 
> >> Unison seems to be good enough for my uses.
> >> 
> >> BTW, tried Hogwasher but it won't get the groups list, always popping 
> >> up an 'internal error' message.
> > 
> > I prefer the older version of Unison 1.8.1 over 2.  The message list 
> > font size isn't customizable in version 2, and it's way too small for 
> > my tastes.
> > 
> > It's serviceable... but I'd rather give Thoth a better test drive.  
> > It's the reader that's most like MT-NW - but they're no longer 
> > accepting requesting for registration.
> 
> Jesus, I just replied to a post from 2013...

What? Would Jesus do that???
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