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patrick j
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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: Unison conversion |
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Hi
I've recently become a Unison convert. Unison the Usenet client btw not some religion 
Anyway here in my (recently started) blog I've put in a post describing the Unison appeal for me:
<http://tinyurl.com/6ll7ed> |
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patrick j
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Unison conversion |
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On 2008-07-20 14:33:10 +0100, Tim Lance <see.sig@bottom.com> said:
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| There are many signs that HW is long in the tooth but it's Subscription/multi-server abilities alone keep me in line. It's sad but I have given up on ever seeing the v5 Cocoa version. He's been promising that as long as Panic has been promising v2. With the advent of bittorrent and the (somewhat, but noticeable) decline in binaries on USENET, demand for such versions may be gone. |
Hi
Yes, I feel that an update to Hogwasher is now unlikely. It did occur to me that if I paid for Unison then fate would mean that within a few days Asar would announce Hogwasher 5.0
So, keep your eye on the Hogwasher site over the next week!
If version 5.0 comes out you'll know who to thank. I'll download it and use it immediately.
I was actually very surprised when version 4.3 came out.
What I'd really like to see in a future version of Hogwasher is format=flowed text. It's great. It's what I really like about Thunderbird and Entourage newsreaders.
My hope is that bit torrenting will remove the use of Usenet for distributing illegal things. What I think Usenet binaries are ideal for is putting up pics of the plants in your garden, that kind of thing. Also it is great for recordings of music, where small groups of musicians have recorded something. This tends to happen in classical music which I'm very interested in.
Bit torrent is ideal for larger things, like software or DVDs, because as you know very well of course the nature of bit torrent means that something has to remain being seeded, so it relies on the direct consumers of the moment to keep it 'alive'. So, big well-known things are available on bit torrent rather than Usenet.
Personally I'm amazed that Usenet is still around at all these days |
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patrick j
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Unison conversion |
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On 2008-07-20 20:37:32 +0100, Tim Lance <see.sig@bottom.com> said:
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| A man after my own heart. I believe in precious little so am more than a bit amazed at how often tempting fate bites me in the ass. So, thank you, Patrick. Perhaps it'll work. |
As an aside I'm thinking of emailing Panic and Asar and suggesting they combine efforts.
Thus bringing us...
Hogison!
or maybe...
Uniwasher |
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Jolly Roger
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: Unison conversion |
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In article <2008072021065775249-emailnotchecked@gmailcom>, patrick j <email.not.checked@gmail.com> wrote:
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LOL! : D |
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Ruddell
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: Unison conversion |
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:51:03 -0600, patrick j wrote (in article <2008072018510316807-emailnotchecked@gmailcom>):
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| Personally I'm amazed that Usenet is still around at all these days |
Actually, for many isp's it is a mystery. I'm serious. I called tech support a while back when the news server was having problems and the person on the line didn't even know what I was talking about.
Go figure eh... |
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