Keywords: NEWSWATCHER INTERNET USENET NEWSREADER MACTCP NORSTAD
This is the latest release of NewsWatcher, one of the best and most popular MacTCP-based Usenet newsreaders. The author is John Norstad, who's also known for writing and maintaining the classic Mac anti-viral program Disinfectant. This archive also contains documentation in Postcard format.
From the release notes:
NewsWatcher 2.1.5
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December 2, 1996
Errors Fixed
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I made a stupid mistake in the Internet Config password scrambling
algorithm introduced in NewsWatcher 2.1.4. Fixed.
This problem only affects people who use Internet Config and news
servers which require authentication and use the "Save password" option.
The first time you run the new 2.1.5 version, you will have to reset
your password.
NewsWatcher 2.1.4
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November 22, 1996
Errors Fixed
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MacSoup and NewsWatcher were incompatible if you used an authenticating
news server and you also used Internet Config to save your news
authentication password. This happened because MacSoup was properly
"scrambling" the password according to the Internet Config rules, but
NewsWatcher was not. Fixed. Thanks to Ralph Lindberg, Ellen Winnie, and
Brian Clark for reporting this problem.
Unfortunately, this fix for the MacSoup problem will cause problems for
peeople who use authenticating news servers and Internet Config with
NewsWatcher, whether you use MacSoup or not. The first time you run the
new 2.1.4 version of NewsWatcher, you will have to reset your password.
There was yet another problem with using Internet Config and
authenticating servers. If you had the "Save Password" option turned
off, NewsWatcher was sometimes saving your password using IC anyway.
Fixed.
NewsWatcher didn't work properly with a Microsoft news server which used
a non-standard response code for one of the NNTP commands. Fixed.
(NewsWatcher now accepts the response code 224 in addition to 221 for
the XHDR and XPAT commands.) Thanks to Eric P. Scott for reporting this
problem.
Brian Clark found an obscure error involving building threads when
multipart postings have followups. Fixed. Thanks, Brian!
In some rare circumstances, canceling a "Get Group List from Host" or
"Send Group List to Host" operation could cause NewsWatcher to crash.