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From: Ed Kual on 26 Jan 2010 01:29
I am a new immigrant to Mac after using windows for many years. On windows
I use Xnews as my binary news reader/downloader which was small and easy to
use. On Mac I have found Unison nice and easy to use except that it freezes
quite frequently (rotatinf color wheel) and I need to force quit it. This
happens with versions 1.8, 2, and 2.3 under SL. I was wondering if others
have experienced the same problem and how it can be solved.

Thanks
From: Richard Maine on 26 Jan 2010 01:39
Ed Kual <edkual(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a new immigrant to Mac after using windows for many years. On windows
> I use Xnews as my binary news reader/downloader which was small and easy to
> use. On Mac I have found Unison nice and easy to use except that it freezes
> quite frequently (rotatinf color wheel) and I need to force quit it. This
> happens with versions 1.8, 2, and 2.3 under SL. I was wondering if others
> have experienced the same problem and how it can be solved.

I don't know the answer to your question about Unison, as I don't use
it. But I'll note that apparently XNews must not make it obvious how to
cross-post instead of multi-posting (at least here and to
comp.sys.mac.apps). :-(

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From: Bream Rockmetteller on 26 Jan 2010 02:07
On 2010-01-25 22:29:27 -0800, Ed Kual <edkual(a)gmail.com> said:

> I am a new immigrant to Mac after using windows for many years. On windows
> I use Xnews as my binary news reader/downloader which was small and easy to
> use. On Mac I have found Unison nice and easy to use except that it freezes
> quite frequently (rotatinf color wheel) and I need to force quit it. This
> happens with versions 1.8, 2, and 2.3 under SL. I was wondering if others
> have experienced the same problem and how it can be solved.
>
> Thanks

Never had the freezing problem. I'm still using 1.8.1 after testing the
2.0 beta. No interest in getting the new version. Thinking about
switching to MT-NW.
--
Bream Rockmetteller
Donaldson's Dog Joy
509-450-0301

From: Jolly Roger on 26 Jan 2010 10:07
In article <Xns9D0CF2D45834edkual(a)209.197.12.12>,
Ed Kual <edkual(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a new immigrant to Mac after using windows for many years. On windows
> I use Xnews as my binary news reader/downloader which was small and easy to
> use. On Mac I have found Unison nice and easy to use except that it freezes
> quite frequently (rotatinf color wheel) and I need to force quit it. This
> happens with versions 1.8, 2, and 2.3 under SL. I was wondering if others
> have experienced the same problem and how it can be solved.

BTW:

If you send the same message to multiple news groups separately, it
forces the rest of us to download your message multiple times. Also, it
means if someone replies to one of your posts in one news group, the
other places you posted the message will not see that reply! This is
known as "multi-posting", and is generally regarded as inconsiderate.

If you want to post the same message to multiple news groups, please
include all of the news groups, separated by commas, in the "Newsgroups"
line of a single post, like so:

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps

This way the message is simultaneously posted to all specified news
groups. More importantly, when someone replies to your message in one
group, that reply is automatically sent in all other news groups to
which you sent the post! This allows all involved to see the entire
conversation, no matter which news group from which they access your
post. This is called "cross-posting" and is the proper way to do it.

--
Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me.
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM
filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting
messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google
Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts.

JR
From: Gorril on 26 Jan 2010 20:21
On 2010-01-26 16:29:27 +1000, Ed Kual <edkual(a)gmail.com> said:

> I am a new immigrant to Mac after using windows for many years. On windows
> I use Xnews as my binary news reader/downloader which was small and easy to
> use. On Mac I have found Unison nice and easy to use except that it freezes
> quite frequently (rotatinf color wheel) and I need to force quit it. This
> happens with versions 1.8, 2, and 2.3 under SL. I was wondering if others
> have experienced the same problem and how it can be solved.
>
> Thanks

Unison's developers simply don't understand multi threaded programming.
I doubt that this problem is fixable without a complete rewrite of
the application.



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