From: John Goodwillie on
In article <2008031920233516807-adunc79617(a)mypacksnet>,
Michael <adunc79617(a)mypacks.net> wrote:

> On 2008-03-13 17:33:33 -0400, goodwillie(a)mac.com said:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a newsreader for Mac OSX which actually works?
> > Before I got an Intel Mac I was able to use Netscape Newsgroups which
> > was excellent despite its antiquity. Then I subscribed to Unison
> > which was quite good but broke down, and after three months' email
> > exchanges with Unison (response times: 45 days, 6 days, 10 days, 12
> > days) they haven't given me a workable way of restoring it, so I am
> > reconciled to losing the unexpired 12 euros' worth of my subscription
> > and starting again.
>
> What do you mean by "subscribe" to Unison? I downloaded it once, paid
> the fee, and it runs fine, all the upgrades have been free, and it now
> runs on Leopard on my Macintel iMac without any problems.

Yeah, I did the download etc. but after a while it refused to recognise
my server details and the correspondence with Unison was over why.

Anyway, I went over to NT-Newswatcher and after reading the instructions
several times managed to get it to work. Thanks to all respondents on
this thread.

John
From: John Goodwillie on
In article <2008031920233516807-adunc79617(a)mypacksnet>,
Michael <adunc79617(a)mypacks.net> wrote:

> On 2008-03-13 17:33:33 -0400, goodwillie(a)mac.com said:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a newsreader for Mac OSX which actually works?
> > Before I got an Intel Mac I was able to use Netscape Newsgroups which
> > was excellent despite its antiquity. Then I subscribed to Unison
> > which was quite good but broke down, and after three months' email
> > exchanges with Unison (response times: 45 days, 6 days, 10 days, 12
> > days) they haven't given me a workable way of restoring it, so I am
> > reconciled to losing the unexpired 12 euros' worth of my subscription
> > and starting again.
>
> What do you mean by "subscribe" to Unison? I downloaded it once, paid
> the fee, and it runs fine, all the upgrades have been free, and it now
> runs on Leopard on my Macintel iMac without any problems.

Yeah, I did the download etc. but after a while it refused to recognise
my server details and the correspondence with Unison was over why.

Anyway, I went over to NT-Newswatcher and after reading the instructions
several times managed to get it to work. Thanks to all respondents on
this thread.

John