Re: Best newsreader for Mac

Mitch <mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.

Ahh... Give a little time to digest this and I'll be back.

Thanks...

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