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Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet?

From Lloyd E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet?
Date 2013-10-23 12:30 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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.

-- 
Lloyd

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Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 13:53 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-23 13:36 +0000
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-23 15:09 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:46 -0700
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:46 -0700
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 17:48 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-23 08:52 -0700
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-24 02:57 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-24 05:43 +0000
          Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-24 06:46 +0000
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Martin Ī¤rautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-10-24 18:16 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-25 05:01 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-25 05:24 +0000
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2013-10-23 14:57 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 17:49 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd E Parsons <lloydparsons@me.com> - 2013-10-23 11:00 -0500
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2013-10-23 19:03 +0100
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Jesse <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2013-10-23 09:38 -0500
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-23 12:30 -0500
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-23 19:04 +0000
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-23 21:54 -0400
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-23 22:27 -0500
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-23 21:44 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-23 21:51 -0400
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-24 05:40 +0000
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-24 22:07 -0400
      Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-24 13:27 -0400
        Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-24 22:09 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-10-24 05:38 +0000
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2013-10-24 15:44 -0400
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-10-24 14:51 -0500
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2013-10-24 22:25 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-24 21:12 -0400
  Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-25 10:15 +1300

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