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MT-Newswatcher has a far more usable interface than google groups, Reddit etc. Eudora ruled Mac email for a long time. Important at the time was that reading n
by angry_octet 8y ago
MT-Newswatcher has a far more usable interface than google groups, Reddit etc. Eudora ruled Mac email for a long time.
Important at the time was that reading news occured from a local NNTP cache, and hence was fast (still 56k last mile). WAN internet was often slow, and browser UIs sucked. If you had a Unix box at home you could even cache overnight or during the day when no one was using the phone line, and your replies queued for when you went online.
NN was arguably the first 'groupware', we had patches from CVS going to news (& email gateway), build and test reports, threaded discussions, etc. Fast searching of the entire archive. Way more useful than Slack. Skype Business is barely better than ytalk + fingerd.
It seems we've barely moved in functionality since then.