Newsgroups in Safari or Mail?

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Newsgroups in Safari or Mail?

How does one access newsgroups in Safari or Mail? Can this be done?
On my Windows PC, I use my mail client (Outlook Express)
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dave

MacBook Pro 15" 2.16GHZ, 2GB & MacBook, Black, 2GHZ, 1GB, Mac OS X (10.4.7), iPOD 60GB, iPOD 30GB, & 2 eMachine Desktops

Posted on Jul 28, 2006 6:13 PM

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Answer 1

iBod

Level 7

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Jul 29, 2006 1:52 AM in response to valend

Hi,

Safari and Mail don't support newsgroups.

http://www.panic.com/unison/ and http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/macosx/ look like good applications, but I've never used them myself.

There's also http://groups.google.com/ which covers most of the usenet groups.

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Jul 29, 2006 3:34 AM in response to valend

Many people use Thunderbird (which also does email) to read News.

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Answer 3

lkrupp

Level 7

22,633 points

Jul 29, 2006 6:05 AM in response to valend

The most popular news reader for a long time has been MT Newswatcher. It recently went universal binary and can be downloaded here...

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13571

Old timers like me swear by it. Not a fancy OS X style GUI but it does just about anything you need it to on usenet newsgroups. The author is a long time Mac programmer and works (don't know if he still does) on the Netscape programming team.

Entourage, part of Microsoft Office, also reads newsgroups.

Dual 2.5GHz G5 Power Macintosh Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.5GB RAM 20" Apple Cinema Display

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