In article ggh56f$od5$, graham at
wrote on 11/25/08 10:22 AM:
> Hey everyone.
>
> Could anybody give some suggestions on good newsreader clients that is
> compatible with Leopard? Hope there are options that are free and easy
> to configure. I'm sure that CLI-only will be out of my depth, and also
> I may not be confident if I can handle something like "make make
> install" in CLI. So if somebody could provide any good clients (I
> seldom access binaries-groups so the newsreader needn't be specially
> designed for binaries downloading), I'll be really really grateful.
>
> I'm using Unison for the moment to make this post. Anyhow I found I
> cannot specify different servers for different groups (since some
> server A may not have group b, but server B does), like what I did in
> Outlook Express. Are there someone familiar with this client can
> provide some work-around? I think I may have to give it up if this
> cannot be implemented.
>
> I made a similar post a couple of hours ago in this group but it
> doesn't appear. I'm not sure if I dreamt doing that, so I posted it
> again. If it bothers you, I'm sorry.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to --
>
Last month I started a thread ("Email Client Recommendations"). I've been
using Entourage (from Office 2004), and am fed up with its unstable
behavior.
In any event, at one point (on Oct. 14) I asked for newsreader
recommendations, and I received a lot of responses. I ended up downloading
several newsreaders (Thunderbird, MT-Newswatcher, MacSoup, and Unison) to
see which appealed to me. Quite frankly, I'm not thrilled with any of them.
But it may be mostly because I've gotten used to the way Entourage handles
Newsgroups.
Like you, I was a long-time OE user prior to migrating to OS X last spring.
I never used Entourage before (though I had it as part of Office 2002 on my
OS 9 machine). I have Office 2004 on my current iMac, so I decided to give
Entourage a try. Entourage can best be described as "OE on steroids." (But
we all know the ill effects of steroids!) My point is, if you like how OE
handles NGs, you may very well like Entourage as well (for NGs alone). Of
course, unless you already have Office, you're out of luck (unless you want
to fork over $$$ to MS).
For other possibilities, you might want to check here:
<http://www.macorchard.com/usenet/>
and
<http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html>
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iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) € OS X (10.5.4)
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