scole wrote:

So, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher, and I quite like it, but there's two
things that bug the hell out of me that I can't figure out how to
fix in its preferences.

First, I'd like to keep read posts; at the moment, when I load a
group and read posts, when I close and save, the read posts are
not visible the next time I visit. In more modern newsreaders,
there's been the choice to keep or discard read posts, but I can't
find such a setting in YA-NW. Is there one?

Secondly, threading; posts are gathered into threads, but the
threads aren;t properly threaded, all follow-ups are nested
beneath the original post, which makes it awkward to easily
navigate the thread and follow the conversation. Again, other
newsreaders I've used on OSX provide proper threading. Can I make
YA-NW act like this?

[...]

I'm more familiar with MT-NewsWatcher, but as both YA-NW and MT-NW
are based on John Norstads original NewsWatcher, their user commands
may be similar if not the same. MT-NW is unchanged from the original NewsWatcher commands.

In NewsWatcher - options for re-reading or keeping read articles:

1). Open the group from the full group list instead of from your user
group list. The full group list always shows all of the available
articles on your server, whether you have read them or not.

2). In your user group list window. Use the Mark Unread command in
the News menu to mark the entire group unread. Open the group.
i.e.; Command + U = Mark Unread

3). Hold down the Option key while opening a group. You get asked to
enter the most recent number of articles to fetch. Type a number
which you think is big enough. This resets the list of unread
articles in your group to be the most recent articles = to the number
you added.

Your easist option here, is the 2nd above, Command + U = Mark Unread

Not sure about your 2nd querie, re threading. MT-NW seems to do this
OK, but maybe it's a matter of what I'm comfortable with. And I
haven't tried YA-NW in 20+ years, so don't remember how/if it
differed.

--
dee

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In article <XnsB211644C44815mikedee@emteedee.invalid>,
Mike Dee <mikedee@emteedee.invalid> wrote:

Not sure about your 2nd querie, re threading. MT-NW seems to do this
OK, but maybe it's a matter of what I'm comfortable with. And I
haven't tried YA-NW in 20+ years, so don't remember how/if it
differed.

Yeah I'm using MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 on my MDD, I used to use YA-NW but
I switched to MT. Like you it's been so long I don't remember why but it
was probably because MT was still being developed after YA gave up the
ghost.

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super70s wrote:

Yeah I'm using MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 on my MDD, I used to use
YA-NW but I switched to MT. Like you it's been so long I don't
remember why but it was probably because MT was still being
developed after YA gave up the ghost.

Yes, though YA-NW ended after the developer Brian Clark, had created
Thoth, which became a popular Mac shareware newsreader.

Thoth, although good, being a time limited $$trialware didn't really
appeal to me, when MT-NW was easily as good (and free). I didn't see
the advantage.

There was also a short-lived VA-NewsWatcher (Value Added-NewsWatcher)
but it didn't develop much further than beyond it's initial release.

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dee

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On 2024-10-24 03:40:11 +0000, Mike Dee said:

super70s wrote:

Yeah I'm using MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 on my MDD, I used to use
YA-NW but I switched to MT. Like you it's been so long I don't
remember why but it was probably because MT was still being
developed after YA gave up the ghost.

Yes, though YA-NW ended after the developer Brian Clark, had created
Thoth, which became a popular Mac shareware newsreader.

Thoth, although good, being a time limited $$trialware didn't really
appeal to me, when MT-NW was easily as good (and free). I didn't see
the advantage.

There was also a short-lived VA-NewsWatcher (Value Added-NewsWatcher)
but it didn't develop much further than beyond it's initial release.

There is also Newswatcher-X cerated by the original Newswatcher
developer, which (like Thoth) runs under early versions of MacOS X or
can run under MacOS 9 with CarbonLib. <https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x>

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On 2024-10-24 05:26:24 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2024-10-24 03:40:11 +0000, Mike Dee said:

super70s wrote:

Yeah I'm using MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 on my MDD, I used to use
YA-NW but I switched to MT. Like you it's been so long I don't
remember why but it was probably because MT was still being
developed after YA gave up the ghost.

Yes, though YA-NW ended after the developer Brian Clark, had created
Thoth, which became a popular Mac shareware newsreader.

Thoth, although good, being a time limited $$trialware didn't really
appeal to me, when MT-NW was easily as good (and free). I didn't see
the advantage.

There was also a short-lived VA-NewsWatcher (Value Added-NewsWatcher)
but it didn't develop much further than beyond it's initial release.

There is also Newswatcher-X cerated by the original Newswatcher
developer, which (like Thoth) runs under early versions of MacOS X or
can run under MacOS 9 with CarbonLib. <https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x>

Oops! That was meant to say it was created using the original
Newswatcher, not by the original developer. :-\

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