MT-Newswatcher broke says need 'open transport'

So much for Thoth.

"

Purchasing a Thoth Registration

My apologies for any inconvenience, but it is no longer possible to purchase a Thoth registration.

Last Updated December 6, 2013."

http://www.appgarth.com/registration.html

Greetings folks,

I hate to point out the obvious, but a newsgroup reader that is FREE and reasonably capable is built into Mozilla products, like SeaMonkey and ThunderBird.

While both lack the features and sophistication of MT-Newswatcher, the Mozilla option works under Mavericks, is current, and is (again) gratis.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

http://www.seamonkey-project.org

luckily, if you're willing to look for it, there are still places you can find thoth online. not on the developer's website, but...cnet comes to mind. just be sure to unclick the part where they send you various spam programs and change your search engine to yahoo. 😉

thanks to all in this thread for mentioning thoth...it's a good newswatcher replacement.

tried to edit the above but realized i'm out of the 15 minute window. wanted to add that while you can still download the program, i have no idea if it'll work past 30 days...

on the off chance that you're still monitoring this thread...i'm looking for contact info for brian clark. i'd like to beg him for a registration code! everything i've found involving appgarth doesn't work. do you have any ideas? TIA

I just have Brian@

Another option would be to run a copy of Lion or Mountain Lion in a virtual machine under Mavericks, you could then continue to run MT Newswatcher.

thanks for the help, nothing @appgarth worked, all bounced back.

rather than do a virtual machine, i'm using my old powerbook--which is up and running and supplies the house with music--to run newswatcher. it's clunky, but it'll work until i find a better solution.

Unfortunately if you use Mavericks as your main OS, there are only clunky solutions to keep using MT-Newswatcher.

And older Mac is one way to do it. A dual-boot system is another - Reboot into 10.8 or earlier to continue using MT-Newswatcher. If you want to go the virtual machine route while running Mavericks, you will have to use Snow Leopard Server as the virtual OS. Lion and Mountain Lion are not licensed for running in a virtual machine if Mavericks is the host OS.

If you can stomach a Terminal-based newsreader, you might try tin. I've been using it for many years and it works great in Mavericks.

Yes, the OS X newsreader landscape is getting bleaker! Has anyone tried Pineapple http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/macosx/ ? I've downloaded and opened it but can't figure out the settings...

It saddens me a bit to find this thread.

After more than ten years of not using Macs, I now work at a company where we use Macs, and although it is a mixed experience getting used to OS X (the last version I used before was Mac OS 9.2, I think), it is also interesting and refreshing.

I used to use NewsWatcher and later its variants, and to me it still defines what reading Usenet should feel like. Then I more or less got out of newsreading completely. Back in the day (mid-nineties?), I actually patched Norstad's NewsWatcher (around version 1.3-1.5 or so) with MIME support for the ISO-8859-1 character set and quoted-printable mail encoding, which I needed. I gave the patches back to John, but I don't know if he actually used them - though I did get a mention in the about box out of it.

It is a pity that Simon no longer develops MT-NewsWatcher. Does anyone know if it might be possible to get hands on the source code? I wonder how hard it would be to get it working again. Naturally I haven't programmed on the Mac since the previous millennium, but I think it would be interesting to at least look at the code... It seems such a shame to lose an outstanding application like NewsWatcher.

/Lasse Hillerøe Petersen

I've found this thread cause I also thought I'd boot up MT MW and discovered the same message. However, not sure if I'm right but I think my service provider (the biggest in Australia) has also come off the boil in terms of newsgroups. Using Usenet, I find there is not the same offering as there used to be with newsgroups - too much **** and useless (to me) stuff.