Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> DA> I'm not going to use Mahogany at all until it becomes a newsreader
> DA> :o(.
>
> David, would you be able to find a bit of time for me as QA Manager
> to elucidate which parts of "News Reader" you need. I would
> appreciate a view from someone who is remote from the situation and
> not involved in it on a day to day basis.
Sure. Basically I want the almost same stuff from news as I want from
the mail part of my reader client. Since I use an IMAP mail server
the usage model is very nearly the same, except for the fact that I
can't store messages in my own personal folders on NNTP servers ;->
I want to be able to use Mahogany much the same way I use GNUs (but
without the horribly tangled architecture and single-threaded
latencies). Here are some things I get from GNUs that I want to see
everywhere:
Complete control over keyboard mapping
a local cache of message headers and bodies
offline reading of cached messages
The ability to see only unread messages
The ability to navigate from an unread message in a thread to its
read parents or children, or expose the whole thread, with a single
keystroke
The ability to clean up/deuglify messages quickly (e.g. repair
wrapping in Outlook replies, wrap long lines, add blank lines
between reply levels, turning:
>> foo bar baz
> car boat dog
into:
>> foo bar baz
>
> car boat dog
Most of these as you can see are not news-specific. Of course it's
all like water to the fish for me: I don't notice most of what I'm
getting because it just works. If you have more-specific questions,
please ask.
> For some time when I ran Win2K, I also ran Hamster news/mail server
> which made Mahogany the online News Reader almost as good as an
> offline news reader. Granted, it has some quirks but it is not as
> incompetant as it is sometimes made out. If I had to define how it
> works presently, I would say that, following it's origins, it tends
> to want to treat News Servers as if they were Imap mail servers. If
> you can stand the delay while it pulls messages from the server at
> the opening of each folder, it is useable.
I can't :(. It's worse than GNUs in that respect. It shouldn't have
to do that when entering an IMAP folder either; I have thousands of
messages in my INBOX; I get lots of mail and I like to have a month or
two of history at my fingertips.
> Thnaks for your input David,
Sure thing.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
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