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- From: stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu (Glenn Stauffer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Short Nuntius/NewsWatcher review
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- Date: 15 Aug 92 14:45:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.111134.429@ludd.luth.se> <1992Aug14.162620.14750@wixer.cactus.org> <1992Aug14.222031.21833@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In article <futor-140892092400@chinacat.llnl.gov> randy j futor,
- futor@llnl.gov writes:
- >The version of Nuntius I evaluated wouldn't allow me to mark one article
- >in a thread unread & leave the rest marked as read -- NW allows this.
- >
-
- I prefer to use the Nuntius thread handling features as opposed to
- marking. There are options
- in both the article and thread menus for various selection options. It
- took me a little getting
- used to (I too prefered the NewsWatcher method), but find that I've
- adapted to the point where
- I prefer Speck's methods.
-
- >I really like the ability to have multiple grouplists! I have my
- "morning
- >newspaper" group, my Mac group, a group called "technobabble", & 3
- >or 4 more.
-
- If you use the Nuntius, File:Open Special option, you get a heirarchical
- listing of your
- personal grouplists. I find that this works very well. I have Nuntius
- set so nothing loads
- until I load a personal grouplist from the menu.
-
- The only negative is that there is not an option to delete these
- grouplists from the menu. I
- restructured some grouplists and had to delete unused grouplists by
- searching for them in the
- Preferences folder. I also have had rare occaisions where a grouplist
- became corrupt and
- forced me to rebuild it - this points out an advantage to Nuntius's use
- of read-seen-new files
- for each news group - I retained all of that information for the
- individual news groups that
- made up the corrupted grouplist.
-
- Glenn Stauffer
- stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu
-