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Re: Thunderbird or Unison for usenet?

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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...

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