Re: How does one access Usenet from Safari?

On 2005-04-19 02:19:36 +0300, sbt <> said:

> In article <BE898687.58B4%>, william lynch <> wrote:
>
>> Just got one of the mini Macs, and it's my first serious
>> exposure to OSX. I'm using Safari on the web just to
>> see how it goes, and it's great, except there doesn't
>> seem to be a way to access Usenet. Thoughts? Advice?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> Safari is a Web browser (http client) -- it doesn't do email (pop3,
> imap, smtp) or newsgroups (nntp).
>
> You can access newsgroups using any of a number of nntp client
> applications: MT-Newswatcher, Unison, Hogwasher, MacSoup, and so on --
> do a search for "Usenet" in the OS X area on Version Tracker. If you
> want an integrated browser, email, and news client, your best bet is
> Mozilla 1.7.7.

I think the OP is an old timer on net... Back in the days, browsers had
simple nntp functionality

Ilgaz

in article , Ilgaz at wrote
on 4/19/05 12:31 AM:

> On 2005-04-19 02:19:36 +0300, sbt <> said:
>
>> In article <BE898687.58B4%>, william lynch <> wrote:
>>
>>> Just got one of the mini Macs, and it's my first serious
>>> exposure to OSX. I'm using Safari on the web just to
>>> see how it goes, and it's great, except there doesn't
>>> seem to be a way to access Usenet. Thoughts? Advice?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>> Safari is a Web browser (http client) -- it doesn't do email (pop3,
>> imap, smtp) or newsgroups (nntp).
>>
>> You can access newsgroups using any of a number of nntp client
>> applications: MT-Newswatcher, Unison, Hogwasher, MacSoup, and so on --
>> do a search for "Usenet" in the OS X area on Version Tracker. If you
>> want an integrated browser, email, and news client, your best bet is
>> Mozilla 1.7.7.
>
> I think the OP is an old timer on net... Back in the days, browsers had
> simple nntp functionality
>
> Ilgaz

Somewhat of an old-timer. And I'm definitely *not* a serious techie,
to the consternation to my high end programmer friends here in SV.

I'm doing this currently on OE on my old G3, but I really hate the
idea of micro$oft products on my machine. So the new mini-Mac will
remain evil empire free forever. The consensus seems to be with
Mozilla, so I will try that. Thanks to all for the feedback.

On 2005-04-21 10:54:51 +0300, william lynch <> said:

> in article , Ilgaz at wrote
> on 4/19/05 12:31 AM:
>
>> On 2005-04-19 02:19:36 +0300, sbt <> said:
>>
>>> In article <BE898687.58B4%>, william lynch <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just got one of the mini Macs, and it's my first serious
>>>> exposure to OSX. I'm using Safari on the web just to
>>>> see how it goes, and it's great, except there doesn't
>>>> seem to be a way to access Usenet. Thoughts? Advice?
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Safari is a Web browser (http client) -- it doesn't do email (pop3,
>>> imap, smtp) or newsgroups (nntp).
>>>
>>> You can access newsgroups using any of a number of nntp client
>>> applications: MT-Newswatcher, Unison, Hogwasher, MacSoup, and so on --
>>> do a search for "Usenet" in the OS X area on Version Tracker. If you
>>> want an integrated browser, email, and news client, your best bet is
>>> Mozilla 1.7.7.
>>
>> I think the OP is an old timer on net... Back in the days, browsers had
>> simple nntp functionality
>>
>> Ilgaz
>
> Somewhat of an old-timer. And I'm definitely *not* a serious techie,
> to the consternation to my high end programmer friends here in SV.
>
> I'm doing this currently on OE on my old G3, but I really hate the
> idea of micro$oft products on my machine. So the new mini-Mac will
> remain evil empire free forever. The consensus seems to be with
> Mozilla, so I will try that. Thanks to all for the feedback.

And MT Newswatcher. , be sure to try that too.

I ended up purchasing Unison since it fits my current style, simplicity.

Ilgaz

In article <BE8CAA44.5E46%>, william lynch <> wrote:

> The consensus seems to be with
> Mozilla, so I will try that.

Not really. You MUST try YA-Newswatcher. Free.

m-m