HELLO..

"tom418" wrote

So if the OP had an ATP with and some turbine time, he would still have to
"sit back and see how everyone interacts"?

Lots of time and advanced tickets does not mean you will know how to
interact within this, or any other newsgroup.

Lets say you walk into a crowded room, full of people talking about common
interests you have. Do you barge in, and start talking, or do you listen a
while, and join into conversations, and once you know some people, start
some conversations on your own?

The polite person would learn the group dynamics, and join in, rather than
trying to dominate.
--
Jim in NC

On 15 May 2007 19:38:41 -0700, chris wrote
in .com:

Google Groups is fast becoming useless for posting anything - I often
have to try 5 or 6 times to post, each time it waits an eternity then
times out, and after 5 or 6 attempts it just gives up and grays out
the Send button.

It's probably inconvenient for you, but that's the best news I've had
so far today.

Any Mac people on here can suggest a good newsreader for me??

I think you've had a few suggestions.

On May 17, 1:23 am, Rolf Blom wrote:
On 2007-05-16 04:38, chris wrote:
-snip-

I use Google Groups, as since I switched to the Mac I still miss
Outlook Express's newsreader (terrible, I know) and haven't found a
newsreader to my tastes yet, but Google Groups is fast becoming
useless for posting anything - I often have to try 5 or 6 times to
post, each time it waits an eternity then times out, and after 5 or 6
attempts it just gives up and grays out the Send button. Grrr... Any
Mac people on here can suggest a good newsreader for me??

Not on a Mac, but this page lists some possibilities for you:

http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html

regards
/Rolf

Wow, you guys are too helpful!! Thanks to all the others who have
posted replies!!!

I have been using Macs for a number of years now, and (apologies to
the poster who suggested this) I have no desire to get another
PeeCee,what with viruses and all that like I went to Mac to get away
from :-) IIRC when I originally looked at newsreaders I was more into
the binary newsgroups, and I disliked the newsreaders I tried at the
time for the purpose of saving binaries..

I will have a look tonight (using the crappy work PeeCee at the
moment) and see how I get on. Anything's got to be better than this!!

you don't like MT-NewsWatcher? or NewWatcher? or Thunderbird?


I have tried Thunderbird and didn't like it so much. Must try the
others. Been years since I looked for a newsreader, I am sure things
have moved along!


Outlook express (blech) is still available fromwww.microsoft.com, and would
still work as long as you are running Classic.

I have an Intel Mac so no classic for me - I did like using Classic
because it sort of feels really retro, like driving a '70s car :0)

I only had OE on one Mac, a mid 90s model, can't remember which one,
but every time I tried to use OE as a newsreader the machine always
ran out of memory as OE loaded the ng list


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

On May 16, 3:48 pm, "Montblack" Y4_NOT!...
wrote:
("chris" wrote)

Grrr... Any Mac people on here can suggest a good newsreader for me??

You can get an ok M$ Win98 box for about $50.

Yucky bunny!!!


ALL you want to do is read newsgroups with it.

Yeah, but I moved away from Windoze to avoid all the crap that comes
with it...


I've got two monitors you can HAVE!! So do half of your neighbors.

Hahahaha! I dunno where you live, but I suspect shipping your one to
New Zealand would cost more than a new one


Problem solved ...use M$ 6.0 Outlook Express :-)

In some ways I have a bit of a need for windoze, as I am a Filemaker
programmer (if you can say Filemaker and Programming in the same
sentence with a straight face), and I currently can't release any
software I've developed for windoze users without getting my hands on
a PeeCee as the Mac version of Filemaker only produces runtimes for
Macs.. But I think the solution is actually simple.

Step 1) Upgrade hard drive in my Mac
Step 2) Get Boot Camp from Apple
Step 3) Install XP as dual boot

XP comes with OE, right?? I know it doesn't come with much
else! :-) You know, no disk burning or DVD player built in, no
iLife, etc etc..



Montblack
Also - a $99 Aiwa boombox plays CD's just fine, thank you very much.

There used to be a ad on TV to help you tell the difference between
Aiwa stereos and Aaaiiiiiiwwwwaaaa - a painful karate move

mini rant mode off

On May 17, 8:34 am, john smith wrote:
In article ,
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:





chris wrote:
On May 16, 12:34 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 11:04:47 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote in :

What did you join?

Oh, s/he's just a clueless (as evidence by use of ALL CAPS) resident
of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio who believes s/he has joined
a Google group. Because GoogleGroups doesn't explain that Usenet
newsgroups are different from those newsgroups created on
GoogleGroups, it's understandable that s/he used the term 'joined'
instead of 'subscribed,' because that the term used by GoogleGroups.

I use Google Groups, as since I switched to the Mac I still miss
Outlook Express's newsreader (terrible, I know) and haven't found a
newsreader to my tastes yet, but Google Groups is fast becoming
useless for posting anything - I often have to try 5 or 6 times to
post, each time it waits an eternity then times out, and after 5 or 6
attempts it just gives up and grays out the Send button. Grrr... Any
Mac people on here can suggest a good newsreader for me??

Isn't there a Thunderbird for Mac. It is VERY much like OE

Yes there is. It works. I use it only on my Windows machine as I do not
use any MS products other than Media Center.

I use MT Newswatcher on my Macs for usenet.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Sweet.. I will have a look at MT..

Cheers