Anyone Using Hogwasher on a Mac?

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.
Dudley Henriques

In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.

Can't help with that, but I can say that I've been using
MT-NewsWatcher on the Mac for several years (since Thoth
development quit) and am pleased with it. And it's free
free free.

Mike Beede

In article ,
Mike Beede wrote:

In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.

Can't help with that, but I can say that I've been using
MT-NewsWatcher on the Mac for several years (since Thoth
development quit) and am pleased with it. And it's free
free free.

Mike Beede

I've been using MT-NewsWatcher for probably close to 10 years. I haven't
found anything better.

The one big annoyance is that when I got my latest machine (dual-core
MacBook Pro), it started exhibiting frequent but non-deterministic errors
on startup which I'm sure are due to some race condition in the ftp section
of the code which never exhibited itself on a uniprocessor.

I tried Hogwasher once and wasn't too impressed. I don't remember the
details of why, just that I didn't like it and went back to MT-NW.

Mike Beede wrote:
In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.

Can't help with that, but I can say that I've been using
MT-NewsWatcher on the Mac for several years (since Thoth
development quit) and am pleased with it. And it's free
free free.

Mike Beede
Thanks Mike. I'll look into it.
D

Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Mike Beede wrote:

In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.
Can't help with that, but I can say that I've been using
MT-NewsWatcher on the Mac for several years (since Thoth
development quit) and am pleased with it. And it's free
free free.

Mike Beede

I've been using MT-NewsWatcher for probably close to 10 years. I haven't
found anything better.

The one big annoyance is that when I got my latest machine (dual-core
MacBook Pro), it started exhibiting frequent but non-deterministic errors
on startup which I'm sure are due to some race condition in the ftp section
of the code which never exhibited itself on a uniprocessor.

I tried Hogwasher once and wasn't too impressed. I don't remember the
details of why, just that I didn't like it and went back to MT-NW.
Thanks Roy. I'm checking it out.
D

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:58:16 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote
(in article ):

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.
Dudley Henriques

I'm using hogwasher, but I'm far from being an expert. I can try to give you
a hand with it.

I can't remember how I set it up, just sorta splashed around until I figured
it out.

Here's the basics...

1 - go to the "set-up" menu
2 - select "accounts"
3 - click the top left icon (hover the mouse pointer over that icon, a
caption should pop up that say's "new"...click it)
4 - select "news" for the account type, and click OK.
5 - fill in the news server info, and a user name (just type in your
name...or whatever you want to post under. I'm pretty sure this is just a
user name to post under)

I can't remember how to configure/import the newsgroups, but let me know if
you get the basics (above) set up and I'll refresh myself on the newsgroup
setup part. Hope this helps!

On 2007-06-09 18:23:44 -0400, rj said:

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:58:16 -0400, Dudley Henriques wrote
(in article ):

If anyone is using Hogwasher as their newsreader on a Mac, I could use
some advice on setting it up.
Dudley Henriques

I'm using hogwasher, but I'm far from being an expert. I can try to give you
a hand with it.

I can't remember how I set it up, just sorta splashed around until I figured
it out.

Here's the basics...

1 - go to the "set-up" menu
2 - select "accounts"
3 - click the top left icon (hover the mouse pointer over that icon, a
caption should pop up that say's "new"...click it)
4 - select "news" for the account type, and click OK.
5 - fill in the news server info, and a user name (just type in your
name...or whatever you want to post under. I'm pretty sure this is just a
user name to post under)

I can't remember how to configure/import the newsgroups, but let me know if
you get the basics (above) set up and I'll refresh myself on the newsgroup
setup part. Hope this helps!

Thanks RJ. I appreciate the reply. As it happens in all the HW
confusion I downloaded and installed another reader called Unison. It
seems to be all right.
DH

In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:

The one big annoyance is that when I got my latest machine (dual-core
MacBook Pro), it started exhibiting frequent but non-deterministic errors
on startup which I'm sure are due to some race condition in the ftp section
of the code which never exhibited itself on a uniprocessor.

I got a new version that fixed that problem. It was pretty much
unusable otherwise.

Mike Beede

In article ,
Mike Beede wrote:

In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:

The one big annoyance is that when I got my latest machine (dual-core
MacBook Pro), it started exhibiting frequent but non-deterministic errors
on startup which I'm sure are due to some race condition in the ftp section
of the code which never exhibited itself on a uniprocessor.

I got a new version that fixed that problem. It was pretty much
unusable otherwise.

Mike Beede

I'm running 3.5.2. AFAICT, that's the latest. Is there something newer?

In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:

The one big annoyance is that when I got my latest machine (dual-core
MacBook Pro), it started exhibiting frequent but non-deterministic errors
on startup which I'm sure are due to some race condition in the ftp
section
of the code which never exhibited itself on a uniprocessor.

I got a new version that fixed that problem. It was pretty much
unusable otherwise.

Mike Beede

I'm running 3.5.2. AFAICT, that's the latest. Is there something newer?

fwiw - the only problem I've had with MT-Newswatcher is when the filter
file got messed up. Deleting the filters made the problems go away.
(this on a dual processor G4).

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)