Does anyone know of a good newsreader for Mac OS X? There seem to be a fair number out there but I thought I'd see if anyone here had any good or bad experiences that they'd like to share.
This is a hopelessly naîve question, but oh well...
News readers obvious read news:// threads, but what on earth are they? The original BBs or what? I am of the generation that never used Newsreaders, and well I'm in the dark...
On some local networks (some university mainframe accounts), or text-only dialup (e.g. our community net uses a Lynx web browser for our text-only customers), one could access a few gazillion "newsgroups" like alt.fan.startrek (ad infinitum) by using the TIN newsreader.
You can also access newsgroups through the PINE email program, which is how I do it here in Halifax.
GUI newsreaders are out there a-plenty, though I think only those of us who grew up on the "old style" bother to look them up anymore... the new kids seem more drawn to Yahoo! Groups.
Stop over to http://www.versiontracker.com and plug in "newsreader" for a search - you'll find lots, with user ratings to weed out the not-so-greats.
Thoth is a program for OSX that allows you to look at threads. It's a bit hardcore and has many options that the newsreading novice might find confusing, but it works well. Here's a link to the developer...Thoththoth web site
gordguide wrote: I've used a few over the years, but now I just use Google (they call it "groups", not to be confused with "news").
groups.google.com is great for public newsgroups, but some of the news servers I have to hit aren't public news servers, so google doesn't index them [img]smile.gif[/img]
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