[geeks] WANTED: Mac program for Usenet text groups

[velociraptor]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

>  I've tried MT Newswatcher, which is very powerful, but hopelessly ugly
>  and cumbersome to manage.
>
>  It's MacOS 7-9 heritage is painfully evident.
>
>  The other stuff like Unison has "OK" text abilities, but it clearly
>  designed primarily for grabbing binaries which I'm not interested in.
>
>  Anyway, suggestions welcome.
>
>  Oh, and what would be *really* nice is if the program updated
>  ~/.newsrc, so I could share that with a UNIX machine I still read news
>  on, from the same server.

I'm not sure that it integrates with .newsrc, but I've used Pineapple
Newsreader, only available for OS X.    It's intended for off-line
reading, so reading is it's primary focus.

My favorite newsreader was slrn.

=Nadine=