Re: YA-NewsWatcher question (and other Classic Mac OS compatible newsreaders)

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>