Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Newsreaders + Thunderbird first impressions Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:14:02 -0800 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <52fa69b8$0$1411$c3e8da3$b1356c67@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1392408842 18635 127.0.0.1 (14 Feb 2014 20:14:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:14:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:56542 On 2014-02-11 18:19:35 +0000, Warren Oates said: > In article , > Doc O'Leary wrote: > >> No, there aren't. If there were, you could name one (that I have not >> already picked apart). Like I said, I've tried them all over the years >> and *none* of them hit the sweet spot that Newswatcher derivatives have. > > I used Gnus exclusively for a long time. You can tweak it so that you > get a good Usenet experience out of it -- it's infinitely tweakable > (annoyingly so; you always have something you feel like doing to it). > Admittedly, it's not the nice GUI that NW is, but it's the best > alternative I've found. I still keep a copy in sync on with NW on my > Linux laptop. I only stopped using GNUS about a year ago, finally giving in and switching to unison. But you have to be an emacs-weenie to love it as much as I did. I still use emacs pretty constantly.