news.software.readers

On 26 Sep 2007 01:54:25 GMT in , Blinky the Shark
< @ > spake unto us, saying:

> Magus wrote:
>
>> I use it as my primary newsreader (in text groups). Thunderbird fills
>> a niche--it's better than the Microsoft offerings, but not as
>> versatile as an actual "news" program.
>
> Someone will probably jump in and say, "But it IS a news program!" But
> since I've been paying attention here I know that you mean "an actual
> 'news' program" as versus a combo mail-and-news try-to-do-both program.

I suspect part of it is the design focus.

Yarn is a newsreader that also does news, for example, while most combo
programs are actually mail readers that try to do news.

The latter doesn't seem to be quite as successful.

--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> /~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
Mainframe/Unix bit twiddler by day, OS/2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night.
WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it!
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.