Re: Best newsreader for Mac

In article <20080512161057.420$Gr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, C B
<surfer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> As you can see I use Newsreader.com. I've always been happy with them.
But
> lately   all downloads have slowed to less than 300 kbps. Today in fact
> just over 100 kbps. But, only with this newsreader. When I download
updates
> from Apple or something from Tucows etc average is 1.2 to 1.4 mbps.
> 
> Can you recomend a Newsreader? One of he things  I like about
> Newsreader.com is that all you need to use it is a browser. Any settings
> are few and simple.
> 
> When I e-mailed them, they advised problems with one of their routers on
> one of their servers. Nothing since.
> 
> I've looked at some newsreaders and also download managers and most
(IMO)
> just have too many options that I don't understand and most likely don't
> need.

You don't seem willing to use a news reader. You are trying to use a
site that needs a browser. That means you do not, and cannot use a
newsreader; you're using a browser. It's a different connection.

Connection to the server used is what is slower -- that shouldn't
improve just because you use a different browser.
Obviously, it will be different every time you use a different SERVER,
which is what you are doing when you switch from one site to another in
your browser.

So let's clarify terms:
SERVER -- machine you are connecting to
News server -- machine holding newsgroup data
Web server -- machine holding web site data
news READER -- software on your end that opens a NEWS SERVER
browser -- software on your end that opens Web servers.

So you aren't using a newsreader at all, and you're not using a news
server directly.
Everyone that's tried using newsreaders avoids browser access; it's a
horribly more difficult method of connecting and keeping track of your
activity. Just awful. It's not the settings (a few settings takes only
a minute or two, once). It's the ability to track and filter all the
stuff you don't want to see any more, and that it remembers what you
have seen and shows it to you in a much more detailed list.