newsgroup reader, your favorite?

[davemchine]

I am still a devoted newsgroup user (rec.crafts.brewing) and I'm wondering if there are better readers than mt-newswatcher out there. In general I am happy but still curious as to what people are using and of course I'd like to know why your reader is better than mt-newswatcher. If you cannot compare then list your favorite feature.

Thanks!

Dave

[Zoidberg]

http://www.panic.com/unison/

Still my favorite, though I used MT-Newswatcher during my pre-X days.

[elmo3]

MT Newswatcher, hands down

[davemchine]

I'm trying Unison from Panic and it appears to be much better than mt-newswatcher when dealing with multimedia but I don't like the actual portion for reading the news as much. It has filters but they don't seem to work. It makes it heard to find your own posts.

Dave

[Baby Tats]

davemchine Wrote:
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> I'm trying Unison from Panic and it appears to be
> much better than mt-newswatcher when dealing with
> multimedia but I don't like the actual portion for
> reading the news as much. It has filters but they
> don't seem to work. It makes it heard to find your
> own posts.
>
> Dave

What dave is saying is that he uses Unison for pRon and Panic when he is reading the articles.

[Grateful11]

How about a free one. Pineapple used to be free I thought but
last time I tried it it's now shareware.

[rz]

MT-Newswatcher. Although the hardcore users still prefer Thoth. I tried Thoth way back when and thought it to be a poor clone of MT-Newswatcher. Neither are being actively updated.

Unison is the "AOL" of newsreaders to me. It tries to hide the complexity of Usenet, which is an admirable goal to me, but also cripples someone who knows what they're doing. If you have missing or partial segments of files, there doesn't seem to be a way to cajole the program into fixing everything like I can in MT-Newswatcher.

[davemchine]

Actually I was checking out alt.binaries.sounds.78rmp-era which I didn't know existed. If I do need help looking up the pron I'll contact you Baby Tats. :-)

Dave