On 18/12/10 15:24, torhu wrote:
I suppose the real problem is that almost noone cares about newsgroups,
I suspect you are right; newsgroups are probably considered by most developers as "legacy media" (not that legacy has to mean bad though) and accordingly any development for newsgroup software is not perceived as being a sexy application. Still I will try out some of the other offerings that people have suggested here and see what goes.
Thanks again to all for comments.
Thunderbird is pretty buggy, but I haven't found a good replacement, at least not yet. I regularly experience to annoying dataloss bugs. The first is when TB messes up posts. This is easily fixed by making it rebuild its index files (yes, TB corrupts its own data files on a regular basis, with no help at all). The second and worst is when it loses track of which posts I've read and which I haven't. There's no way that I know of to fix that. The real fix to this issue has to be that people stop using newsgroups and start using something else instead. Maybe the D mailing list newsgroup mirrors are is the solutions, I don't know. Should I bother trying, or would I just be replacing one set of problems with another?
