i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
thanks
ed
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
In article <td26gu$kakk$1@solani.org>, Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch>
wrote:
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
hah no. it does not stick to standards and rfcs nor do the authors
bother fixing bugs.
In article <td26gu$kakk$1@solani.org>, Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch>
wrote:
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
hah no. it does not stick to standards and rfcs nor do the authors
bother fixing bugs.
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
thanks
ed
Am 11.08.22 um 08:48 schrieb nospam:
In article <td26gu$kakk$1@solani.org>, Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch>
wrote:
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
hah no. it does not stick to standards and rfcs nor do the authors
bother fixing bugs.
This is by far the most powerful E-Mail- and Usenet-Client on this
planet. It works on Windows, macOS and Linux. Profiles are fully
compatible.
Apple Mail is crap: Thunderbird is the solution. Apple calendar is OK
but most is done on TB. Thanks to CardDAV and CalDAV-capabilities it is
easy to connect it with the iCloud.
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
Thunderbird is, unfortunately, not really very good as a Usenet
client. It's kind of the bare minimum for that task, but there are other newsreaders that are much better.
Thunderbird is, unfortunately, not really very good as a Usenet
client. It's kind of the bare minimum for that task, but there are other newsreaders that are much better.
There is a reasons why TB has a market share of more than 50% as Usenet client.
In article <tdb0fm$po2f$1@solani.org>, Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch>
wrote:
There is a reasons why TB has a market share of more than 50% as Usenet
client.
that doesn't mean it's any good.
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
thanks
ed
Am 14.08.22 um 13:23 schrieb Bud Frede:
Thunderbird is, unfortunately, not really very good as a Usenet
client. It's kind of the bare minimum for that task, but there are other
newsreaders that are much better.
The user badgolferman produces the statitics for misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Here the distribution of the news readers. Certainly that is not representative for the Usenet as whole but it won't differ much:
Top Newsreaders
Ranking Articles Newsreader Users ------- -------- -------------------------------------------- -----
1 238 Mozilla 22
2 85 Thoth 1
3 50 slrn 3
4 17 NewsTap 4
5 12 Usenapp 1
6 12 <unknown> 5
7 9 Hogwasher 2
8 7 Opera Mail 2
9 7 Forte Agent 1
10 5 Xnews 3
11 4 Unison 2
12 3 XanaNews 1
13 3 Usenapp for MacOS 1
14 2 Microsoft Outlook Express 1
15 2 Turnpike 1
16 1 WinVN 1
17 1 None 1
18 1 tin 1
There are good reasons for this picture.
Am 14.08.22 um 13:23 schrieb Bud Frede:
Thunderbird is, unfortunately, not really very good as a Usenet
client. It's kind of the bare minimum for that task, but there are other
newsreaders that are much better.
Will you have the grace to tell us which one in your opinion?
There is a reasons why TB has a market share of more than 50% as Usenet client.
On 2022-08-14 22:43:22 +0000, Bud Frede said:
Because most people don't know any better? :-)
As proven by the fact that Windoze became and is still so widely used. :-)
Thunderbird was a barely adequate newsreader when it was part of
Netscape Communicator. It hasn't really improved much for news since
then.
Thunderbird was a barely adequate at anything last time I bothered to
look at it. It was absolutely *awful* - that was quite a few years ago,
and it could (hopefully) only really get better.
Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> writes:
Am 14.08.22 um 13:23 schrieb Bud Frede:
Thunderbird is, unfortunately, not really very good as a Usenet
client. It's kind of the bare minimum for that task, but there are other >>> newsreaders that are much better.
The user badgolferman produces the statitics for misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Here the distribution of the news readers. Certainly that is not
representative for the Usenet as whole but it won't differ much:
Top Newsreaders
Ranking Articles Newsreader Users
------- -------- -------------------------------------------- -----
1 238 Mozilla 22
2 85 Thoth 1
3 50 slrn 3
4 17 NewsTap 4
5 12 Usenapp 1
6 12 <unknown> 5
7 9 Hogwasher 2
8 7 Opera Mail 2
9 7 Forte Agent 1
10 5 Xnews 3
11 4 Unison 2
12 3 XanaNews 1
13 3 Usenapp for MacOS 1
14 2 Microsoft Outlook Express 1
15 2 Turnpike 1
16 1 WinVN 1
17 1 None 1
18 1 tin 1
There are good reasons for this picture.
Because most people don't know any better? :-)
Thunderbird was a barely adequate newsreader when it was part of
Netscape Communicator. It hasn't really improved much for news since
then.
Thunderbird was a barely adequate at anything last time I bothered to
look at it. It was absolutely *awful* - that was quite a few years ago,
and it could (hopefully) only really get better.
Am 14.08.22 um 13:23 schrieb Bud Frede:
Thunderbird is, unfortunately, not really very good as a Usenet
client. It's kind of the bare minimum for that task, but there are other
newsreaders that are much better.
The user badgolferman produces the statitics for misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Here the distribution of the news readers. Certainly that is not representative for the Usenet as whole but it won't differ much:
Top Newsreaders
Ranking Articles Newsreader Users ------- -------- -------------------------------------------- -----
1 238 Mozilla 22
2 85 Thoth 1
3 50 slrn 3
4 17 NewsTap 4
5 12 Usenapp 1
6 12 <unknown> 5
7 9 Hogwasher 2
8 7 Opera Mail 2
9 7 Forte Agent 1
10 5 Xnews 3
11 4 Unison 2
12 3 XanaNews 1
13 3 Usenapp for MacOS 1
14 2 Microsoft Outlook Express 1
15 2 Turnpike 1
16 1 WinVN 1
17 1 None 1
18 1 tin 1
There are good reasons for this picture.
On 8/10/2022 11:10 PM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 11.08.22 um 05:14 schrieb Edna Hosner:
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
:-)
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/
The current version of Thunderbird has a major bug. You cannot load a
list of newsgroups from the server on either Mac or PC versions of it.
Must go back to version 91 in order to do it.
Am 11.08.22 um 05:14 schrieb Edna Hosner:
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
:-)
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/
On 8/10/2022 11:10 PM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 11.08.22 um 05:14 schrieb Edna Hosner:
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
:-)
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/
The current version of Thunderbird has a major bug. You cannot load a
list of newsgroups from the server on either Mac or PC versions of it.
Must go back to version 91 in order to do it.
Am 03.10.22 um 06:45 schrieb John:
On 8/10/2022 11:10 PM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 11.08.22 um 05:14 schrieb Edna Hosner:
i'll be getting a new iMac in the next few months
:-)
i've been using thoth for years
? what newreader do you recommend and why
Mozilla Thunderbird. Usenet and mail. Very well maintained. Open Source
and sticks to all standards and RFCs.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/
The current version of Thunderbird has a major bug. You cannot load a
list of newsgroups from the server on either Mac or PC versions of it.
Must go back to version 91 in order to do it.
Works perfectly on 102.3.1 (64-Bit). It would have never been released
if that would not work.
Then why is there a bug report. 102.3 will work if the newsgroups were downloaded previously on version 91 before the 102 upgrade. Do A clean install of either the Mac or PC version and then download a list of newsgroups does not work. It just stalls. It is a known issue.
On 10/2/2022 10:44 PM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 03.10.22 um 06:45 schrieb John:
The current version of Thunderbird has a major bug. You cannot load a
list of newsgroups from the server on either Mac or PC versions of it.
Must go back to version 91 in order to do it.
Works perfectly on 102.3.1 (64-Bit). It would have never been released
if that would not work.
Then why is there a bug report. 102.3 will work if the newsgroups were downloaded previously on version 91 before the 102 upgrade.
On 10/3/2022 1:45 PM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 03.10.22 um 20:16 schrieb John:
Then why is there a bug report. 102.3 will work if the newsgroups were
downloaded previously on version 91 before the 102 upgrade. Do A clean >>> install of either the Mac or PC version and then download a list of
newsgroups does not work. It just stalls. It is a known issue.
You are an anonymous Troll lacking any credibility:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0)
Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/91.13.1
No trolling at all. 102 would not work on this PC. So I installed 91 because it is needed to download newsgroups. I investigated the problem throughly and found a bug reports and discussion on it confirming it.
Try a clean install of 102 on either a Mac or PC that did not have Thunderbird previously and you will be easily able to duplicate it.
Am 03.10.22 um 20:16 schrieb John:
Then why is there a bug report. 102.3 will work if the newsgroups were
downloaded previously on version 91 before the 102 upgrade. Do A clean
install of either the Mac or PC version and then download a list of
newsgroups does not work. It just stalls. It is a known issue.
You are an anonymous Troll lacking any credibility:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0)
Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/91.13.1
Am 03.10.22 um 20:16 schrieb John:
On 10/2/2022 10:44 PM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 03.10.22 um 06:45 schrieb John:
The current version of Thunderbird has a major bug. You cannot load a >>>> list of newsgroups from the server on either Mac or PC versions of it. >>>> Must go back to version 91 in order to do it.
Works perfectly on 102.3.1 (64-Bit). It would have never been released
if that would not work.
Then why is there a bug report. 102.3 will work if the newsgroups were
downloaded previously on version 91 before the 102 upgrade.
Wrong. I updated the list this morning and added two new groups on 102.
I do not know what is behind the bug reports. I never saw complaints or anything in this direction in German or English speaking Mozilla or TB groups.
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