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I have Safari on my Mac but am told by News Individual that I can't use
it to read newsgroups. Does anyone else have the same problem and if so, how did they overcome it? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon |
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Sacha wrote: I have Safari on my Mac but am told by News Individual that I can't use it to read newsgroups. Does anyone else have the same problem and if so, how did they overcome it? I don't understand why not. What reason did they give? Is it something to do with logging in, or posting? Or Proxies? The quickest solution would be to download thunderbird and use that, but I am not too happy with thunderbird for usenet. Fantastic mail programme, a bit pants for news. Mainly in the area of killfiling and filtering. There are reports that it goes really slowly on OSX tiger But trying it out would cost nothing but time. Heard good things about Multithreaded Newswatcher (MT-NW) and Hogwasher and Unison, which might involve cash changing hands. http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/ http://www.asar.com/ http://panic.com/unison/ |
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On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:57:15 +0100, Sacha wrote
(in article .com): I have Safari on my Mac but am told by News Individual that I can't use it to read newsgroups. Does anyone else have the same problem and if so, how did they overcome it? AFAIK, Safari is only a web browser. You need a separate newsreader. I use Hogwasher, available from http://www.asar.com/. Not free, but free trial for 60 days (nice long trial), and then current price is 49 USD, which is about 26GBP. I did try MT-Newswatcher http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/ but personally didn't like it. YMMV. You can also download MT-Newsreader from Version Tracker: http://www.versiontracker.com/ and if you search on usenet newsreaders there (or Google Mac newsreaders), you'll find other choices. Have fun experimenting! -- Sally in Shropshire, UK bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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