After reading the "Selective Surfing" column (Net Traveler, October '95, page 141), I downloaded VA NewsWatcher, the Usenet newsreader you recommended. I can't see why anyone would want to use this instead of a UNIX-based newsreader such as trn or Tin.
VA NewsWatcher is slow. In the time it took me to sort through all the articles and filter out the things I didn't want, I could have read through half the articles, using trn.
I suppose if a person had never used a real newsreader before, VA NewsWatcher would seem great. And it's got that Mac interface going for it. But as a person who's been using rn and trn for years, I have to say that I'm distinctly unimpressed.
Keith E. Gatling
kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu
Perhaps you're so speedy in your UNIX-based newsreader because you have the commands memorized, or maybe it's the speed of your UNIX workstation. I'm guessing you're also intimately familiar with command-line-based text editors, which you'll need when posting articles or creating kill files with a UNIX-based newsreader. I'll keep my Mac, thanks.
