philospher77@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> All right.. I've been messing around with some of the newsreaders
> (hogwasher, Unison, and Opera's newsreader), and I'm not all that
> happy with any of them. The features that they seem to be most
> proud of seem to be more appropriate for people who deal with a
> lot of binaries, which I don't. Hence the use of google groups.
>
> So, here's my list of desired features, so that if anyone else
> has an idea of a reader that most meets them:
>
> Downloads just the headers first, so that I can do fast pass
> through and kill off threads I'm not interested in.
Yes.
> Allow me to select multiple headers and mark them all for
> retrieval/ ignoring at once.
Yes.
> Generally be mouse-oriented... I want icons to click to ignore,
> mark for download, etc.
Yes.
> Allow for filtering, kill-files, etc.
Yes.
Rebecca, MT-NewsWatcher is your best choice. It's mouse-oriented.
Take a look at the info at the URL below and decide for yourself.
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/
This discussion has been fun, but it might be a good idea to move it
out of rasfw. I've taken the liberty of crossposting my followup to
the following three newsgroups.
http://groups.google.com/group/news.software.readers/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.comm/
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/
Followup-To: news.software.readers
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