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Subject: Re: YA-NewsWatcher question (and other Classic Mac OS compatible newsreaders)
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On 2024-10-24 05:26:24 +0000, Your Name said:

> On 2024-10-24 03:40:11 +0000, Mike Dee said:
>> super70s wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yeah I'm using MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b3 on my MDD, I used to use
>>> YA-NW but I switched to MT. Like you it's been so long I don't
>>> remember why but it was probably because MT was still being
>>> developed after YA gave up the ghost.
>> 
>> Yes, though YA-NW ended after the developer Brian Clark, had created
>> Thoth, which became a popular Mac shareware newsreader.
>> 
>> Thoth, although good, being a time limited $$trialware didn't really
>> appeal to me, when MT-NW was easily as good (and free). I didn't see
>> the advantage.
>> 
>> There was also a short-lived VA-NewsWatcher (Value Added-NewsWatcher)
>> but it didn't develop much further than beyond it's initial release.
> 
> There is also Newswatcher-X cerated by the original Newswatcher 
> developer, which (like Thoth) runs under early versions of MacOS X or 
> can run under MacOS 9 with CarbonLib.
> <https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/newswatcher-x>

Oops! That was meant to say it was created using the original 
Newswatcher, not by the original developer.  :-\