Macintosh Usenet Newsreaders Software at The Mac Orchard

Newsflash

Current Version: alpha 12

Newsflash is a free Usenet newsreader featuring:

A user-friendly Aqua GUI.
Multi-threaded (non-blocking) operation.
Multiple NNTP server support.
True (by-reference) article threading.
Multiple NNTP server support.

As of June 2002, Newsflash is still in the early alpha stages of development. The current release may contain serious bugs, so use it at your own risk. Alpha 12 adds/changes the following:

yEnc support courtesy of updated AJRFoundation/AJRMessage frameworks
Support for posting using US-ASCII, ISOLatin1, ISOLatin2, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese) and ISO-8859-7 (Greek) character sets
Fixed bug decoding multi-part MIME articles
Clicking on progress indicator opens Activity Viewer window
New cleaned-up crisper icon
Left/right arrows now work for keyboard navigation
Newsflash can be set as the default handler for news: and nntp: URLS
Started Swedish Localization
Fixed bug which let you drag-n-drop a favorite item inside itself
Fixed memory leak while reading a .newsrc file
Remembers and re-opens the previous selected server
Size and date columns remember their (in)visibility settings
Browser remembers its height and column widths

Newsflash is a 100% native Mac OS X application developed with Cocoa and Objective-C. Newsflash is an Open Source project released under a BSD-style licence. Visit the Newsflash project page at SourceForge for the latest developer news or to join the Newsflash project.

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Key Mac Newsgroups

There are several Usenet newsgroups dedicated to Macintosh-specific topics. Here are the most essential ones:

comp.sys.mac.announce is a moderated newsgroup that contains important general announcements to the Macintosh community.

comp.sys.mac.apps is the place to go when you have questions about specific Macintosh programs.

comp.sys.mac.comm is the place to discuss all things involving Macintosh telecommunications and Macs on the Internet.

comp.sys.mac.printing is for all printer- and printing-related discussion.

comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc is for discussion of all other Macintosh hardware-related questions.

comp.sys.mac.system is the place to go for MacOS-related discussions.

comp.sys.mac.misc is the place to post when other Macintosh-related newsgroups don't fit the bill.

Note: If you'd like to search the Usenet for Macintosh-related information, you really only have one option (but it's a good one): Google purchased the old DejaNews (Deja.com) Usenet archive, and now offers sophisticated searching of all mainstream Usenet newsgroups, both past and present.

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