Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal

From	android <here@there.was>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date	2014-06-09 21:46 +0200
Organization	the center of color Imaging for the color blind probono institute
Message-ID	<bvmh94F1pl9U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<lmi170$v2m$1@dont-email.me> <slrnlpbnub.i6q.mr@irc.sandman.net> <2014060910060374942-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <ln4rpd$80n$1@speranza.aioe.org> <2014060912325780458-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>

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In article <2014060912325780458-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
 Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

> On 2014-06-09 17:44:17 +0000, android <here@there.was> said:
> 
> > On 2014-06-09 19:06:03 +0200, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> 
> > said:
> > 
> >> On 2014-06-09 16:20:10 +0000, Sandman <mr@sandman.net> said:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> In article <lmi170$v2m$1@dont-email.me>, Darrin Doc O'Leary 
> >>> <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> I’ve mentioned here before that I’ve been working on a newsreader due to 
> >>>> the
> >>>> death of MT-NewsWatcher on Mavericks.  It was suggested that I look into
> >>>> doing a crowdfunding effort to move things forward, so I took that 
> >>>> advice.
> >>>> Today I went live with a campaign on Indiegogo, and you can get to it 
> >>>> via:
> >>>> 
> >>>> http://signal.subsume.com/
> >>>> 
> >>>> I've done my best to make it the most attractive way to turn it into a 
> >>>> non-
> >>>> commercial project.  Take a look and tell your friends if you like what 
> >>>> you
> >>>> see.  I'll be happy to discuss Signal further here (of course! :-) or on
> >>>> Indiegogo.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Now let's see if this cross-posting works . . .
> >>> 
> >>> I'm one of those that miss MT-NW dearly, so it's a welcome effort. But 
> >>> one
> >>> of the weak points of MT-NW was its UI, unfortunately.
> >>> 
> >>> Here's a blog I wrote about how to "fix" the UI of Unison, which has 
> >>> really
> >>> nice, but underused UI:
> >>> 
> >>> <http://mac.sandman.net/pages/thoughts/2013-10-23/Switching_To_Unison>
> >>> 
> >>> So that's basically some of the features and UI things I would like to 
> >>> see
> >>> in a news client. Maybe it can help as some form of feedback. I would
> >>> certainly expect Signal to "inherit" the strong filtering functions from
> >>> MT-NW with regexp's and filtering on any header.
> >> 
> >> Your UI issue with Unison 2 is well founded and one of the reasons I 
> >> prefer Unison 1.8.1. is the ability to have separate windows for each 
> >> NG I am working with, and not having to deal with the cluttered 
> >> horizontal threading. I find Unison 2 very restrictive when compared 
> >> with the earlier version. I have both on this Mac running OSX 10.9.3.
> > 
> > 1.8.1 is not  free it's evaluationvare and have restrictions if used 
> > beond the trial. Testing this as I type...  I have on the mashine since 
> > earlier but then I chosed to use MT and Thunderbird in combo....
> 
> Then I guess I was mistaken, I paid for 1.0 and the 2.0 update when it 
> was released, needless to say I was disappointed with 2.0, and I 
> believed they were offering 1.8.1 free. I have never used any version 
> of Unison as *evaluationware*.

I didn't mean that. What I mean't  was that if you download unison 1.8.1 
you get a evaluation copy. I understood that you had paid for a license.
That said I don't think that you becomes a criminal if you use the 
crippled version after the fully featured trial has expired.
I'm happy with  MT-NW for now though.
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Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2014-06-09 16:20 +0000
  Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal android <here@there.was> - 2014-06-09 18:36 +0200
  Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-09 10:06 -0700
    Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal android <here@there.was> - 2014-06-09 19:44 +0200
      Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-09 12:32 -0700
        Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal android <here@there.was> - 2014-06-09 21:46 +0200
    Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal billy@MIX.COM - 2014-06-09 17:55 +0000
  Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal billy@MIX.COM - 2014-06-09 18:18 +0000
    Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2014-06-10 08:18 +0000
  Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-10 16:40 +0000
    Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2014-06-10 17:55 +0000
      Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-11 16:00 +0000
        Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2014-06-12 05:45 +0000
          Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-12 16:12 +0000
            Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2014-06-13 13:27 +0000

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