MT-NewsWatcher for Mac

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• excellent newsreader

  Foobar1969September 6, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />fabulous usenet client, can't beat the price.

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• Too Many Windows

  dallas2dcJuly 13, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Way too many little windows. Ugly interface, reminds me of OS9 applications.

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• Fatally Buggy

  TstalcupJanuary 13, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Always corrupts its preferences file. Always corrupts its article database file then takes 10 minutes to launch. Cannot read many Yenc posted articles that MT-newswatcher 3.2 actually could. Its free software but its only updated once per Presidential term, so live with the bugs or wait till 2008 for another version.

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• Always Corrupts Its Own Prefeferences

  Mil MascarasOctober 7, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have always had hope for the 3.x series of MT-Newswatcher. So it was quite cool that it went from 3.1 to 3.5.x series recently. Why did I quit using it way back when? OH YES, because it always inevitably trashes it Preferences files or corrupts its own database..... Muti Threading is the coolest thing (definitely missing from Thoth). But everytime I revert to MT-NW, it will ALWAYS end up corrupting itself, thru all iterations, on every different Mac I have ever owned, throughout all the OS's too. I hope they can address this fatal flaw, as otherwise, I will always look for the latest version, and want to encourage updating this app. Good Luck. I am still going to give it 4 stars, because of the history of this app development

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• Can't do without it

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionJune 26, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Although I have the occasional crash when I cancel an operation, i.e. download, this is THE app to be doing USENET with. Now if only Rosetta.app development hadn't been dumped by Brian Clark. &lt;sigh&gt;

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• Big fan - universal binary coming?

  JINX2May 11, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've always thought this was the best newsreader for d/l binaries. Does anyone know if this is going to go to a univeral binary any time soon?

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• This is the best...

  FuelOctober 4, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />... news reader client out there. It does what it is supposed to do and fast and easy. Above all... it is free! Haven't seen anything even come close to this.

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• Some minor quirks

  helmerOctober 21, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I know MT-NewsWatcher is a free newsreader, the best free newsreader by the way, but there are still some minor bugs to shake out. For instance, there is something wrong with the yEnc implementation. Most of the time yEnc'ed binaries download without a problem but every now and then MT-NW complains about the message being malformed or truncated even though it's successfully decoded the very next try. Too often retrying won't even help which is why still have Thoth lying around. Then we have the long file name issue. There is no problem downloading files with long file names, but uploading still shows the Mac OS 9 compatible truncated file name. 31 character long file names on uploaded files just isn't enough and, again, I'll have to resort to using Thoth for a shortcoming in MT-NW. Fix these two problems and I'd call this program flawless.

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• The Best

  Goldfinger7400August 3, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've tried most of the newsreaders, and I keep coming back to this. It may not be as good for files as some of those that seem designed just to grab files from the usenet, but for following threads and actually participating in discussions NewsWatcher hasn't been beat yet. It follows all the standards that Outlook/Entourage breaks, and has a very full-featured filtering capability that is not hard to configure. No matter how you like your newsgroups you can probably configure NewsWatcher so you'll like it. Only quabble some may have is the lack of an all-in-one view, but I prefer the multiple window approach.

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• April 13, 2004

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