loki102 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 (edited) Does anyone know of a free newsgroup reader out there for the Mac? Particularly one that handles binary file decoding? Thanks Edited June 17, 2004 by loki102 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurchybaby Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Free Agent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted June 17, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted June 17, 2004 (edited) try grabit (sorry, didn't realize it was a mac thread) Edited June 17, 2004 by primortal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr3w2k3 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Binary News Reader www.bnr2.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 17, 2004 Free Agent Agent supports Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, & XP. Please note that this is a Macintosh forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki102 Posted June 17, 2004 Author Share Posted June 17, 2004 yeah.. i probably should have mentioned mac in the original post anyway, post edited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prof_stig Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Forget XNews on the mac-- I personally like Xnews XNews Home Thunderbird also works pretty well. (Mac version also). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling3k12 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 http://www.panic.com/unison/ It's not free but... it's pretty nice :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Thunderbird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 http://www.panic.com/unison/It's not free but... it's pretty nice :) yeah it's good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Halime is pretty nice, but it is no longer being developed. The source code is available though. MT Newswatcher is nice as well, and is still being developed. My personal favorite is Thoth, which is no longer available (the author stopped development and sales because of the level of piracy of his programs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 http://www.panic.com/unison/It's not free but... it's pretty nice :) Unison is OK, but it is VERY limited in functionality compared to others like MT Newswatcher and Thoth. Ask anyone in the alt.binaries.mac hierarchy what they think of it, and you will likely get a huge number of complaints about missing features. By the way, if you visit those groups, look for Blue Dragon. That's me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Thunderbird? Thunderbird is a very poor choice for binaries, since it doesn't even have the capability of combining multipart binaries and it's yEnc decoding is not 100% working either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki102 Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 i've settled on using MT Newswatcher, it seems to do everything i need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am_fek Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Unison is OK, but it is VERY limited in functionality compared to others like MT Newswatcher and Thoth. Ask anyone in the alt.binaries.mac hierarchy what they think of it, and you will likely get a huge number of complaints about missing features.By the way, if you visit those groups, look for Blue Dragon. That's me. roadwarrior: Could you give some examples? I bought Unison a while back and it's been excellent for me - so I guess what I'm saying is I don't know what I'm missing out on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 roadwarrior: Could you give some examples? I bought Unison a while back and it's been excellent for me - so I guess what I'm saying is I don't know what I'm missing out on. Well, you can't post binaries with it for one. It has very poor filtering. No scripting. Locked into the text/music/pictures/files sorting, so you have to keep switching between them for different things, even in the same group. In short, while it's fine for someone who downloads the occasional album or movie, it will work fine. But if you use newsgroups on a daily basis for downloading lots of different kinds of content, then you would be better off with a more powerful reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 i've settled on using MT Newswatcher, it seems to do everything i need Yeah, I probably would be using Newswatcher if I hadn't gotten so used to Thoth. I dread changing over after all the settings that I have "just right" in Thoth now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickwhois Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 i am used newsbin for the pc, when using osx though, i just get .bin files and par, do binaries work the same way with mac, i know i am missing something small, but need help. dont want to get off topic, just wondering if there is a newsreader that unrars the files or what? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki102 Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 thanks for the help roadwarrior, its working out fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NETknightX Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Try iGrabNews if you just want to get binaries... http://igrabnews.free.fr/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki102 Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 Try iGrabNews if you just want to get binaries...http://igrabnews.free.fr/ i tried that one earlier, but i dont know, i just didnt like something about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted June 18, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 18, 2004 Anyone know of a newsreader on the Mac that supports SSL connections, besides Thunderbird? Since I've gone off-campus, they only allow secure connections from external IPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theDose Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 no one mentioned Hogwasher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 no one mentioned Hogwasher No one mentioned it because he asked for a FREE newsreader. Hogwasher costs money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 i am used newsbin for the pc, when using osx though, i just get .bin files and par, do binaries work the same way with mac, i know i am missing something small, but need help. dont want to get off topic, just wondering if there is a newsreader that unrars the files or what? thanks What newsreader are you trying to use on the Mac? None automatically unrar archives, but what you really need is a program called MacPar Deluxe. Contrary to what it's name implies, it does more than just Par files, it also does Par2 and extracts Rar archives. Stuffit will also extract Rar archives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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